Author of "the new black" Evie Shockley

Shockley has published four books of poetry: <em>the new black</em> (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; <em>31 words * prose poems </em>(Belladonna Books, 2007); <em>a half-red sea </em>(Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and <em>The Gorgon Goddess </em>(Carolina Wren Press, 2001). She is the author of the critical book <em>Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry</em> (University of Iowa Press, 2011). A Cave Canem graduate fellow, Shockley received the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey.

Funding provided by the Jackson Poetry Endowment.

Q&amp;A with the Author, Friday, April 8, 11 am, Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library