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The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series presents Evie Shockley

Thursday, April 8, 2027
6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series presents Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley thinks, creates, and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Her books of poetry include suddenly we (NAACP Image Award; National Book Award Finalist), semiautomatic (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Pulitzer Prize finalist), and the new black (Hurston/Wright Legacy Award). Her most recent honors are the Academy Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement and the Shelley Memorial Award. She is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.

Evie Shockley wears black-rimmed glasses, sports curly hair against a gray background.
Evie Shockley wears black-rimmed glasses, sports curly hair against a gray background.
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library

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