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psu_nhinged: give all the flowers/awards to evie shockley!!!

ilya_poet: New Jersey friends: so many amazing poetry related things happen this weekend. Today, the one and only Claudia Rankine spoke to Paul Muldoon about her work and teaching and tomorrow the brilliant Evie Shockley will be in conversation about Toni Morrison:

CAAPPoetics: The Close Reading The Emergency! Black Study series ends tonight. If you missed last night's event with Marwa Helal & Quenton Baker, don't make the same mistake twice, and RSVP now for tonight's conversation between Evie Shockley and Damon Young. RSVP:

commofwriters: Only 7 days to apply to our Poetry Workshop! Deadline: March 28. Staff poets are Kazim Ali, Victoria Chang, Forrest Gander, Carmen Giménez, Brenda Hillman, Evie Shockley, w/ special guests Robert Hass & Sharon Olds. Financial aid & scholarships available.

kjavadizadeh: New episode dropping tomorrow morning—meanwhile catch up on our back catalogue, beginning with the brilliant Evie Shockley on Ed Roberson.

johnfbrowning37: Yes, this is a good time to check out the poetry of Evie Shockley. She is starting to get recognition that is later in coming than should be the case.

kjavadizadeh: “Poetic genius” AND genius podcast guest Evie Shockley!!

CAAPPoetics: Only one week until our Close Reading The Emergency! event with Evie Shockley and Damon Young! Tickets are sure to go quickly, so make sure to save your spot now! RSVP:

FuriousFlowerPC: Our 2023 Furious Flower Poetry Prize received record submissions this year! Stay tuned for our announcement of the winner and honorable mention who will be reading with Evie Shockley on April 20. Pictured: 2022 winner Ariana Benson with judge Tim Seibles

Poetry_Daily: Today's Featured Poet: Poet & literary scholar Evie Shockley thinks, creates, and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.

CAAPPoetics: Join CAAPP in our spring study series, Close Reading The Emergency! featuring Evie Shockley and Pittsburgh’s own Damon Young! Make sure to get your tix this weekend! RSVP:

CyrusCc37: Announcing the 2023 Shelley Memorial Award winner, Evie Shockley

JaJoLaMo: Congratulations, Evie! ❤️❤️❤️ Announcing the 2023 Shelley Memorial Award winner, Evie Shockley

weslpress: Congratulations to Evie Shockley, who has received the 2023 Shelley Memorial Award!

kjavadizadeh: You can also find my conversation with Evie Shockley on Google Podcasts

IGalleymore: 'my heart snapped with each stem'. From Evie Shockley's suddenly we

weslpress: Acclaimed Poet Evie Shockley to Read at Princeton Humanities Gala

CAAPPoetics: Evie Shockley & Damon Young will close out our Close Reading The Emergency! series on Thursday, March 23 with what is sure to be a fascinating and rich conversation. Tickets will go fast, so don't wait to RSVP!

seminewblack: Aren't you ready to get your copy of *suddenly we*––& have it signed for you?? Register (& order the book!) at this link. Let's welcome this book into the world!

BredaSpaight: A wonderful poem by Evie Shockley in the New Yorker. A master class in the use of anaphora. i gave away the eve / who left / the garden / that day /

Kris10ly: Senzo by Evie Shockley

catherinepoet: More beautiful work by Evie Shockley!

__dissatisfied_: Amazing book! When I was at rutgers undergrad I had the pleasure of taking Evie Shockley’s black poetry class and words aren’t enough, it was really wonderful

JoseHernandezDz: Evie Shockley on speaking of herself as a 'southern poet'.....

AtownArtMuseum: Featured art: (1) Alison Saar (American, born 1956), “Cotton Eater,” 2014, woodcut on found sugar sack quilt pieces. Purchase: The Ardath Rodale Art Acquisition Fund, 2014. (2014.18), (2) Alison Saar (American, born 1956) with poet Evie Shockley (American, born 1965), “mami wata

DanLydia22: i want my brownness to cover all but the silver edges of my tin skin. my sculptor should have made me like her round-bellied maker hewed her: with chain- saw in hand, roughly cut away from me everything but the semblance of tender. - Evie Shockley ☕️

heathervmyers: This is a lie, I discovered, in telling tales about bad Valentines. HOWEVER. Despite being ignored by the guy among being forced to watch an entire Wes Anderson filmography, I ended up having dinner with the poet Evie Shockley for a school function. So who actually won that day?

PJBraley: "The Blessings" - One of the loveliest poems I have read in a long time. Thank you, Evie Shockley

POETSorg: —Evie Shockley, "black love"

kjavadizadeh: Evie Shockley. “i gave away the eve / who left the garden / that day, but kept the cool, / green, shady, fruitless, / fruitful stay, the evening / that did not fall / away.”

borgposting: one of my fav stories is an excerpt from the satirical novel "black no more" (1931) by george schuyler, in which a black scientist invents a way to turn black people white. "separation anxiety" (2000) from evie shockley is also one my favs so far. just a really great collection

Fantomas2go: Evie Shockley - “the blessings”

deannamascle: black love by Evie Shockley - Poems | Academy of American Poets

pageturner: i gave away a whole holiday, but i kept billie. i gave away the chance to try and fail to have it all. i gave away the one thing that makes some men pay. i gave away the pedestal, the bouquet. i gave away nel wright, but i kept sula peace. Evie Shockley

ObsidianLit: Deadline for the Furious Flower Poetry Prize is fast approaching—submit today! Obsidian publishes the winner, honorable mention & select finalists. Judge: Evie Shockley. $1,500 for the winner and $750 for the honorable mention. Deadline: February 15 (

JesusEsquivia: my love is black, the only way i know to live :: now fierce and demanding, now free and unpossessed :: so for my magnet, my love becomes steel, then, for my butterfly, will not a flower but a whole field be :: evie shockley. black love.

HarthouseJames: "black love" by Evie Shockley Poet Patricia Smith, this month's guest editor for poem-a-day, asked a variety of poets to write "Black love sonnets." This is the first presentation: traditional sonnet form, lovely imagery, and inventive rhyme.

damarishill: black love by Evie Shockley

Shanna_Compton: ✨ Evie Shockley is poet of the day ✨

mschubertpoet: Absolutely relishing in Evie Shockley's ––shall become as–– this January morning!

BreezyJanae: This was such a fun episode to record. How I wound up getting to talk to literal genius’ like Evie a Shockley is beyond me but I’m so grateful!

Poetry_Society: The Poetry Society is pleased to announce the launch of a monthly reading series at its new storefront space in Brooklyn. The series will open with readings by Maureen N. McLane and Evie Shockley. More info:

FuriousFlowerPC: The Furious Flower Poetry Prize is open and available for submissions! The winner & the honorable mention will be invited to visit Furious Flower Poetry Center for a reading alongside judge, Evie Shockley, in April 2023. Watch the 2022 reading here:

renny_______: Evie Shockley

SIIndy_Metro: Poetry Sunday: “lifeline,” Evie Shockley

cathyparkhong: Can't wait for Evie Shockley's next collection of poems, "suddenly we!"

johnfbrowning37: Two classes with Professor Evie Shockley rate high on my list of Rutgers memories. Followed closely by two classes with Professor Elisabeth Camp.

EnglishCofC: Join us Friday, November 11th at 2pm in Maybank 100 for our fall visiting scholar Evie Shockley!

BWLectures: “Aretha and the Iceman, J-Dilla, Susan Howe, and a bird that becomes a fish only to become a bird, flower, then a bird again meet up in this lecture about visuality/visibility (Evie Shockley) and the textual/textural. Poet Douglas Kearney will discuss what draws him to visual...

UofSClibraries: Join us Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. for an in-person or virtual talk with poet Evie Shockley, whose work has been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Free to attend, but RSVP is required ->

UofSClibraries: Join us for this year’s festival with author Tiya Miles, poet Evie Shockley, poet and author Dianne Johnson-Feelings, whose children's fiction appears under the pen name Dinah Johnson, and artist April W. Harrison. Free. Register ->

craigsperez: in my "poet-scholar" grad course, we have so far studied the poetry & scholarship of kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui, Robert Sullivan, Jonathan Skinner, and Evie Shockley. the students are also workshopping poems and will eventually write their own essay on poetics.

Prairie_Lights: Join us on Zoom at 7pmCT tonight Sept 21 with Ama Codjoe, Evie Shockley, and Donika Kelly!!

UofSClibraries: That slight chill in the air means UofSC’s Fall Literary Festival begins soon! This year we’re hosting authors Tiya Miles, Evie Shockley and Dianne Johnson-Feelings, and artist April W. Harrison. Free, but registration is required:

POETSorg: our mood sought in the shadows of blame more than cause —Evie Shockley

UAPoetryCenter: UA Poetry Center Digest 8/27 - September Events; General Registration for Classes & Workshops; Poetry Centered with Evie Shockley; & more

DarlinDeon: Thinking about separation anxiety by Evie shockley today. The idea of getting all that you’re supposed to/told to want but recognizing that there’s more beyond the confines of what you’ve been given is an incredible premise

ConsueloPoet: Acclaimed Poet Evie Shockley to Read at Princeton Humanities Gala | Princeton, NJ News TAPinto

DarlinDeon: A few of my favorites. Dark matter by sheree Thomas has got to be number one though. The stories are speculative fiction and sci-fi by black authors. Separation anxiety by Evie Shockley and the comet by W.E.B Dubois are my favorites from it

marty_cain: 2011 - Evie Shockley, The New Black (Wesleyan UP)

ChelsDingman: “now, my mornings fill with coffee and bad news, the bad news as finely ground as the beans and sprinkled in like an antidote. it’s not just for breakfast anymore.” —Evie Shockley

christianbok: Listen to me recite EX PATRIA – FIFTY DAYS AT ILIAM – SHIELD OF ACHILLES by Evie Shockley:

gisselleyepes: we workshopping with Evie Shockley next week omfg omfg omfg i'm so excited all over again

thefourthriver: Please take care of yourselves & loved ones. & do what you can. From Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley.

Cards_Wrestle: Top 20 Career Wins- 1. Kyleigh Musick - --25 2. Phoebe Fletcher - 24 3. Jordan Dempsey-21 4.Maddy Arnold--13 4.Kyleigh Miller--13 5. Madison Karten--12 6. Kambry Shockley-9 7. Reese Pattison---8 8. Kaylyn Carpenter-5 9. Makenna Longacre- 2 9. Evie Hayes-----2 9. Nevaeh Criqui--2

leesuhmaroon: Just finished evie shockley’s semiautomatic. Damn.

KUACFMTV: Poetry In America: You Can Say That Again, Billie, Tonight at 8:30 on KUAC TV Billie Holiday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit” winds beneath the unsettling, satiric humor of Evie Shockley’s poem “you can say that again, billie.”

1WeekCritique: sources of inspiration: evie shockley, for her line breaks, her sense space on the page

laughsatdanger: Day 2 Evie Shockley, received in spring

PoetryFound: let nothing but my flexed foot, toeing childhood, tell the night-eyed, who know how to look, what lies within. —Evie Shockley

nazmulmarketer1: Evie Shockley: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

seminewblack: An older poem of mine, from *the new black,* is making a reappearance this week, thanks to editor T.P Winch. Check out this little ode to a certain kind of guy…

ToneeRhianRose: Watching PBS's Poetry in America ep you can say that again, billie, by Evie Shockley.

c_thorsson: Teaching today: ENG 360: Harryette Mullen, “Elliptical” (2002); Evie Shockley, “dependencies” (2011) and “what’s not to liken?” (2017) ENG 660: Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections (2020)

JamesPenha: This is such a good episode… and such a good poem. yee-haw

VikkiMarshall4: Watch | Poetry In America: You Can Say That Again, Billie by Evie Shockley

MrsHurleyMedia: EXCLUSIVE: Watch Evie Shockley Discuss Her Poem “you can say that again, billie” ‹ Literary Hub

jenny___irish: EXCLUSIVE: Watch Evie Shockley Discuss Her Poem “you can say that again, billie” ‹ Literary Hub

FilmTVDiversity: PBS: Poetry in America Episode: you can say that again, billie, by Evie Shockley - available to stream online until 3/11/22

Marina72: EXCLUSIVE: Watch Evie Shockley Discuss Her Poem “you can say that again, billie”

wwwrfcorg: The latest episode of Poetry In America is devoted to Evie Shockley's poem, "you can say that again, billie," inspired by the song "Strange Fruit," written by Abel Meeropol & first recorded by the iconic Billie Holiday. The episode is now streaming at

PoetryOutLoud: when breathing in the ashen traces / of dreams deferred, the detonator’s ticking a queer / echo that amplifies instead of fading "the way we live now ::" Evie Shockley

SDCountyLibrary: Partner Spotlight - Tomorrow at 5 p.m., join PBS for a talk with poet Evie Shockley about her satiric humor poem “you can say that again, billie,” which is inspired by Billie Holiday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit.”

POETSorg: self-portrait with cats, with purple, with stacks of half-read books adorning my desk, with coffee, with mug, with yesterday's mug. —Evie Shockley

MilwPBS: PIA: Evie Shockley and others

blkgrlpoet: Reading Evie Shockley’s work is an act of discovery every time. I first read the new black as a very green college junior, a baby poet myself. Now, I see so much more. Forms, references, metaphors, style. It’s a wonderland.

junipersummer: The guest writers at Juniper have inspiring craft sessions and workshops! Check out ‘her tin skin’ by instructor Evie Shockley:

cawkward_rich: Have a little love poem to my friends / the friends of my mind up today on Poem-A-Day. Many thanks to Evie Shockley for her generous curation this entire month!

POETSorg: that year i carried the blues around left me mean :: while indigo held fast, the daily news tattooed azure to my back. —Evie Shockley

POETSorg: and bathe breathe believe through drought you survive like the passage schooled you till rains arrive —Evie Shockley

lrynanderson: On now - and for the next 20 hours (Evie Shockley currently speaking)

grackleswrite: "Write a poem in which you use enumeratio to strengthen an argument:"

mnourbese: Zong! Global 2020 Rebroadcast - DAY 4. Happening NOW another reading from last year's broadcast. ...featuring... NourbeSe Philip Rachel Zucker Faizal Deen JonArno Lawson Lynda Jacobs Cecily Nicholson Lauren K. Alleyne Myriam J. A. Chancy Evie Shockley Rosamond S. King

PaisleyRekdal: 2. Video "sestina" essay that responds to BOTH Nella Larsen's PASSING and Evie Shockley's corresponding sestina, "Clare's Song."

callmevrana: I'm treasuring how various small elements here & there in Birdsong's work evoke other poets I adore (Duriel Harris, Camonghne Felix, Kiki Petrosino, Evie Shockley, Morgan Parker, Tiana Clark, Patricia Smith) - and yet the collection overall reminds me of NO ONE ELSE.

germyradin: From semiautomatic by Evie Shockley

modernletters: Poets at the End of the World are Ama Codjoe, Donika Kelly, Nicole Sealey, Evie Shockley & Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon - this reading happens midday on 10 November NZT, by our calculation

OPRorg: Event of Interest: MACC presents Evie Shockley on Black Graphics and the Subject of Ekphrasis

MinxMarple: there should be love poems. iridescent odes to skies / and their fluid, mutating blues, their restless canvasses / where we cast the adjectives - brilliant, dark, deep, clear - / that name our daily moods because there should be love, Evie Shockley



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