Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley is author of the poetry collections the new black and semiautomatic, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

From the Editors: Allies

Our new issue asks: How do people who are not alike forge productive alliances?

  • Adam McGee
  • Ed Pavlić
  • Evie Shockley

les milles

haiti? must every place-name on earth
be a shorthand for violence
on a map of grief?   

  • Evie Shockley

Teacher Feature: Ma Rainey’s Blues

  • Evie Shockley

lotto motto

  • Evie Shockley

Shifting the (Im)balance

On race and the poetry canon.

  • Evie Shockley

Loaded Terms

We must not reduce the complex field of poetics to a simple dichotomy.

  • Evie Shockley
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