6 DECEMBER 2024, 4-5PM, JUDITH E. WILSON DRAMA STUDIO • FACULTY OF ENGLISH • 9 WEST ROAD
Evie Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. For her poetry—including the collections suddenly we, semiautomatic, the new black, and a half-red sea—she has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Holmes National Poetry Prize, has twice won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, has received an NAACP Image Award, and has been named a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize. She has served as an editor of jubilat and Feminist Studies, and is Editor for Poetry at Contemporary Literature.
Harriet Rose is an MPhil candidate in English Studies at Cambridge. She will give a brief reading from her own poetry.
Amber Kirwan is a PhD candidate in English at Cambridge and the British Library. Her current research is on African-American periodicals in the mid- 20th century. She will give a short introduction to Evie’s work.
For questions please contact vb337@cam.ac.uk or lrk27@cam.ac.uk
