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music city u.s.a. it was, nothing doing without a song, and not just twangy tunes that rhyme southern drawls with guitar strings, though it's true i knew charlie pride before charl…
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Evie Shockley received her BA from Northwestern University. After studying Law at the University of Michigan, she earned her PhD in African Literature from Duke University. Shockley's first book, The Gorgon Goddess, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 2001. Since then she has published three books: a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), 31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007), and the new black (Wesleyan University Press, 2011). Embracing both free verse and formal structures, Shockley straddles the divide between traditional and experimental poetics. A review of her work in Library Journal noted that, "Shockley’s work incorporates elements of myth without being patently 'mythical' and is personal without being self-indulgent, sentimental without being saccharine." Her reported influences include Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, and Harryette Mullen. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, Shockley was also awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers in 2003. Two of her poems were displayed in the Biko 30/30 exhibit, a commemoration of the life and work of anti-apartheid activist Steven Biko, which toured South Africa in 2007. Shockley was co-editor of the poetry journal jubilat from 2004-2007, and teaches African American Literature and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.)
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All month this country has careened toward cold and winter's celebrations: what a star announced—a birth—and then a chance to fold a year away, pull one fresh from the drawer,…
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i cop a squat on a squared-off log, to watch you ball on the community center court. butt numb, i shift my weight…
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self-portrait with cats, with purple, with stacks of half-read books adorning my desk, with coffee, with mug, with yesterday's mug. self-portrait…
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My father: younger, handsome, downright square, eyes like brown buttons fastening his face over his soul, mouth not too straight to swear, to say, man, sonny stitt's ass trashed th…
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at 93, you determined to pick up and go— and stay gone. the job nkrumah called you to, to create, at last, your encyclopedia africana (encompassing a continent chipped…
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the screed seen here blesses the sweet, the meek, the gentle, the serene. let eyes ensembled peep the news sheets: ere…
Dear Daughter, Can you be fifty-three this month? I still look for you to peek around my door as if you'd discovered a toy…
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i want her tin skin. i want her militant barbie breast, resistant, cupped, no, cocked in the V of her elbow. i want…
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wedged in the top branches, rain still sighing to earth as a dissolute sky dissolves, a mozambican woman turns mother, her water breaking loose to pool with the flood…
when i was younger, trees were green, money was green, money grew on trees, or trees grew up and became money. now, money is clearly…
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we make midnight a maquette of the year: frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize the vows we offer to ourselves in near silence: the competition shimmerwise…
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Dreaming the lives of the ancestors, you awake, justly terrified of this world: you could dance underwater and not get wet, you hear, but the pressure is drowning you:…
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something is always burning, passion, pride, envy, desire, the internal organs going chokingly up in smoke, as some- thing outside the body exerts a pull…
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You put this pen in my hand and you take the pen from my hand. the night…
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