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Poets Out Loud Prize-Winning Books Launch

Jan.15.2013
Poets Out Loud Prize-Winning Books Launch

Readings by Amy Sara Carroll and Nick Hundley, winners of the 2011-2012 Poets Out Loud Poetry Prize, and by Evie Shockley, standing in for the judge of the POL Prize.

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Evie's Latest Blogs

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Apr.02.2013 - 7:34 pm
National Poetry Month (Or, Promiscuous Blogging)
National Poetry Month 2013
Greetings!  And Happy National Poetry Month! As in previous years, I will be blogging elsewhere this April in celebration of all things poetry.  Unlike before, when I...
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Oct.27.2012 - 9:43 pm
(W)Othering Heights (or, Further Adventures in Literary Film Adaptations)
Greetings!  It's been another month of Sundays since I posted here, but I'm back to share a brief response to a movie I saw recently: the latest film adaptation of Emily...
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Aug.17.2012 - 1:23 pm
My Quickest of Quick Responses to Two Unrelated Lines
Samein Priester and his daughter Syann
"I learned how to be a father from my mother." -- Amazing final line of a short film by a young filmmaker named Samein Priester.  I read about him and his work (and the...
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Aug.06.2012 - 6:51 am
In Praise of Reading Marathons and Long Line-Ups
The 6th Annual Welcome to Boog City Poetry and Music Festival
Greetings!  It's been so long since I posted here, I almost feel like I need someone's permission to do it.  : ) This is just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed...
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Comments from Evie

Dec.04.2012 - 11:53 pm
In response to: One of a Writer's Happiest Days
Thank you!!
So nice of you to write and celebrate with me, Arabella!  I am beyond delighted and deeply honored by the award....
Apr.12.2012 - 5:50 am
In response to: Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Not an Anomaly
incarceration and criminalization
Zhana, Thanks very much for your comments and the link.  The statistics just bring into clearer focus what anyone...
Mar.30.2012 - 1:47 pm
In response to: Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Not an Anomaly
Thanks, Jeanne
Good to hear from you.  Hope you're well and -- dare I say -- thriving these days, despite everything. Peace.
Mar.29.2012 - 5:14 am
In response to: Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Not an Anomaly
Thanks, Susan
It's lovely of you to write.  I just hope my voice and the voices of people everywhere who finds this tragedy to...
Jan.22.2012 - 12:34 am
In response to: The Iron Lady
thanks for the review
I'm still hoping to see this film, as distasteful as Thatcher is to me.  Meryl Streep is simply irresistable....

Published Reviews

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Renegade Poetics, by Evie Shockley
Feb.08.2013
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
Published by KCET.org
"Award-winning poet and UCLA English Professor Harryette Mullen is the subject of a compelling chapter; she also provided the inspiration for Shockley's title 'Renegade Poetics...
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Video: Literary Birthday Celebration: Langston Hughes
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Audio: Conversation with Evie Shockley (Interview by Jacque Day)
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Audio: Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series -- Evie Shockley
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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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