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Evie Shockley, an award-winning poet who embraces both\u00a0free-verse and traditional styles of writing, will open up the 2014-15 Writers Read series on Wednesday, September 24, at 8 p.m. in\u00a0Eastern Mennonite University’s Lehman Auditorium.<\/p>\n

“Shockley\u00a0brings excitement as she goes beyond reading to performing her work,” said Michael Medley, chair of language and literature at EMU. “The racial identity and justice themes in some of her poems will resonate with the justice concerns of many at EMU.”<\/p>\n

Shockley\u00a0has published four collections of poetry:\u00a0The Gorgon Goddess<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0a half-red sea<\/em>\u00a0were published by Carolina Wren Press in 2001 and 2006 and\u00a031 words * prose poems<\/em>\u00a0in 2007 (Belladonna Books). Her most recent collection\u00a0the new black<\/em>\u00a0(Wesleyan University Press, 2011) received the 2012 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry.<\/p>\n

Two of\u00a0Shockley’s\u00a0poems 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.<\/p>\n

Shockley\u00a0is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey, specializing in African American and African diaspora literature, especially poetry. She has authored a scholarly study of black aesthetics entitled\u00a0Renegade Poetics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Shockley will also be a part\u00a0of James Madison University’s Furious Flower Poetry Festival, Sept. 24-27. Visit\u00a0FuriousFlower2014.com, or call 540-568-8883 for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writers Read information<\/h3>\n

Sign-language interpretation is available upon request.<\/p>\n

\u2022 General public, $5 at the door<\/p>\n

\u2022 EMU students (with identification), free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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