Evie Shockley

Thursday September 10th, 2020, 2:00pm
Sponsored in collaboration with The Kentucky Women Writers Conference) A Discussion: Poetry of Curiosity.  Shockley will conduct a one-hour discussion on the role of curiosity in poetry. This session is only open to UKY graduate and undergraduate creative writing students. Registration Link:  https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZbFb-gxSkyPRpxXQ0aewA 

Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, poet Evie Shockley is the author of three books of poetry: semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017), which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize; the new black (Wesleyan, 2011), winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2005). She is also the author of a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa, 2011). Among Shockley’s honors are the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the American Council of Learned Societies. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, Shockley received the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She was awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers in 2003. Two of her poems were displayed in the Biko 30/30 exhibit, a commemoration of the life and work of anti-apartheid activist Steven Biko, which toured South Africa in 2007.