Biography of Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is an American poet. Shockley received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her book the new black and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018.
Shockley is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. Shockley received a BA from Northwestern University, studied law at the University of Michigan, and received and a PhD in English from Duke University.
Shockley teaches at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. She published the book Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry in 2011. The book explores the poetics of the Black Arts Movement.
She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow since 2013.
Early life
Shockley is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. Shockley received a BA from Northwestern University, studied law at the University of Michigan, and received and a PhD in English from Duke University.
Career
Shockley teaches at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. She published the book Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry in 2011. The book explores the poetics of the Black Arts Movement.
She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow since 2013.
Publications
- The Gorgon Goddess (Carolina Wren Press, 2001)
- a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006)
- 31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007)
- the new black (Wesleyan University Press, 2011, 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry)
- semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
Write your comment about Evie Shockley
Poem of the day

by Ernest Dowson
Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!
...
Read complete poem
Popular Poets
- 1. Emily Dickinson(2412 poems)
- 2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
- 3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
- 4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
- 5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
- 6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
- 7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
- 8. Robert Service(831 poems)