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May.03.2012
Greetings! If you like a festive occasion -- and like poetry -- and like to support a worthy cause, have I got the event for you! This Friday evening (tomorrow!), you can satisfy all three impulses at once.
Fordham University's new literary and multi-media magazine, CURA, helmed by the...
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Mar.23.2012
Today I'm feeling overwhelming grief, outrage, and pessimism. The grief is a response to the recent murder of a black teenager in Florida; the outrage and pessimism respond as much to the long, bitter history of racism in the U.S. as to this specific case. The poem below, originally...
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Feb.02.2012
Greetings! Sticking with my goal of (more) frequent, short-but-sweet blog posts this year, I want to give a shout to four books that were a part of my January, in three categories.
Just Read
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston -- This is a classic novel, originally published...
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Jan.15.2012
Greetings! In 2012, I'm going to try to leave a note here more often. By definition, this means the note will be short and (with luck) sweet! You may find me waxing eloquent here in my typical (long-winded!) way from time to time, but mostly not. Let's see how this works!...
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Dec.21.2011
Oh, Red Room! You have been around the top of my list of things I'd like to do (spend time reading and blogging here, that is) but don't have enough hours in the day for. It's been too long . . .
I hope this note finds all readers well, warm, and conscious of whatever there is of...
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Oct.31.2011
Greetings, readers! Where have you been???
Oh, yes, of course -- that's right -- I'm the one who's been away. : ) But I have a good excuse! I have been, among other things, doing a bit of traveling to promote my book and, perhaps, meeting or reconnecting with some of the...
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Sep.04.2011
[UPDATE: My panel was switched with another scheduled for a different hour in the same venue. The post below now contains the corrected info.]
Greetings! I'm slipping in a short post on this Labor Day weekend (Happy Labor Day, to workers and labor union members everywhere!), because I...
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Aug.12.2011
Greetings! I am excited to be able to say that, at long last, my critical book, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry, is on its way into the world!
I haven't written much in this blog about the scholarship I do in my role as Associate Professor of...
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Aug.01.2011
Greetings! I am back at the computer -- the internet-connected computer, I should say -- after nearly a month being as away from email and online activities as I could possibly manage. I was fortunate to have been awarded a residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY, and I was...
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Jun.14.2011
Greetings! This will be a short and sweet little entry, but hopefully better than a long silence. : ) I wanted to provide a bit of an update before too much time got away from me.
The first half of my entry today is part-friend-bragging, part-book-recommending. A very good friend (and fellow...
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May.21.2011
Greetings!
Well, I can hardly believe how long it has been since I posted a new blog entry. The past few months have been very full, with work and with the rewards of work, but I never meant it to preclude me from writing here entirely. I will try to ease back into a more regular habit of writing...
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Mar.24.2011
Greetings! This is just a quick reminder that the National Book Foundation is still rolling out the blogs on its winners of the Award in Poetry. We're right around the halfway point -- a good time for those who meant to check it out, but haven't yet found the time, to drop by the site and skim...
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Feb.18.2011
Greetings! This is just a brief post to direct you to some reading elsewhere, for those who might be interested. The National Book Foundation, which offers the National Book Awards each year in various categories, is hosting an online retrospective of more than 60 years of American poetry, via a...
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Feb.06.2011
Greetings! I am at home, sitting in my comfy chair, slowly recovering from the intensity of three full days at the 2011 AWP Conference. Is anyone reading this unfamiliar with AWP? It used to stand for "Associated Writing Programs," or something similar, but it's worded a bit more...
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Jan.18.2011
Greetings! I don't typically blog with direct requests, not even to promote my own books, but today I am making an exception. I'd like everyone who cares enough about my poetry to read this blog to be aware of an amazing organization, without which my journey as a poet would have been very...
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About Evie
Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry, the new black (Wesleyan UP, 2011) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007) and The Gorgon Goddess (Carolina Wren Press,...
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