Evie Shockley is the author of a half-red sea (2006) and a poetry chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001), both published by Carolina Wren Press.  Her work appears or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Callaloo, Hambone, HOW2, Asheville Poetry Review, 1913 a journal of forms, nocturnes (re)view, Studio, Talisman, Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South.  She recently guest edited “~QUEST~”: a special issue of MiPOesias featuring the work of contemporary African American poets and is currently serving as a guest editor of jubilat.  Shockley is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, recipient of a residency at the Hedgebrook retreat center for women writers, and a three-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize.  She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and is at work on a study of the relationship between race and innovation in African American poetry.

bio / autography
(or, 18^th century multiculturalism)

found in africa  / dawned in freedom
raised in boston / rose in slavery
schooled in greek / grew in god
published in england / died in poverty

                        -- for phillis wheatley

From a half-red sea; initially published in Blink.

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