Please join us Monday February 10th, in the Joynes Reading Room, for an evening of poetry with Pulitzer Prize finalist Evie Shockley.

Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, poet Evie Shockley earned a BA at Northwestern University, a JD at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English literature at Duke University. The author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea (2006), the new black (2011), and semiautomatic (2017). Shockley is also the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011).

Her most recent collection of poetry, semiautomatic (2017), was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, an LATimes Book Prize finalist, and a winner of the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in poetry. She teaches Creative Writing and African American Literature at Rutgers University. UT honors students may request a free copy of one of Evie Shockley’s books by inquiring in person at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room, while supplies last.

This reading is free and open to the public.

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For more information, call 512-471-5787 or email matt.valentine@austin.utexas.edu

The Joynes Reading Room is located in the Carothers Building at 2501 Whitis Avenue on the UT Austin Campus. This event is sponsored by the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment in the Plan II Honors Program and the New Writers Project in the UT Department of English.