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Evie Shockley

Author of The new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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Includes the name: Evelyn E. Shockley

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Works by Evie Shockley

The new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (2011) 44 copies

semiautomatic (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (2017) 22 copies

suddenly we (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (2023) 16 copies

a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series) (2006) 15 copies

Renegade poetics : black aesthetics and formal innovation in African American poetry (2011) 10 copies

The Gorgon goddess (2001) 3 copies

Separation Anxiety {short story} 2 copies

31 words * prose poems (Belladonna #104) 1 copy

Associated Works

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) — Contributor — 1,487 copies

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributor — 768 copies

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Contributor — 529 copies

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 174 copies

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015) — Contributor — 171 copies

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributor — 114 copies

The Utopia Reader (1999) — Contributor, some editions — 112 copies

The Best American Poetry 2015 (2015) — Contributor — 96 copies

Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Contributor — 55 copies

The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 48 copies

The Best American Poetry 2021 (2021) — Contributor — 46 copies

The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) — Contributor — 33 copies

Catch the Fire!!! (1998) — Contributor — 29 copies

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 27 copies

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (2015) — Contributor — 16 copies

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributor — 16 copies

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2019) — Contributor — 14 copies

Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) — Contributor — 11 copies

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) — Contributor — 9 copies

Soul Sister Revue : A Poetry Compilation (2019) — Contributor — 6 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Shockley, Evie
Birthdate: 1965
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Places of residence: Nashville, Tennessee, USA (birthplace)
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Education: Northwestern University (B.A.)
University of Michigan (J.D.)
Duke University (Ph.D.)
Occupations: poet

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Statistics

Works: 8
Also by: 20
Members: 113
Popularity: #173,161
Rating: 4.2

ISBNs: 12
Favorited: 1

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