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Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is a poet and scholar. Her most recent poetry collections are the new black (Wesleyan, 2011) and semiautomatic (Wesleyan, 2017); both won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the latter was a finalist for the Pulitzer and LA Times Book Prizes. She has received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Stephen Henderson Award, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Cave Canem. Shockley is Professor of English at Rutgers University.


“we’d like to propose—”

A Poem by Evie Shockley
October 28, 2020  By Evie Shockley
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topsy’s notes on taxonomy

Literary Hub Poem of the Week
June 10, 2015  By Evie Shockley
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Amiri Baraka, Politics, and Tough Love

A poet in conversation with Coltrane and Monk
April 20, 2015  By Evie Shockley
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