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Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Update: 2023-10-181
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Evie Shockley joins Kevin Young to read “Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove,” by Rita Dove, and her own poem “the blessings.” Shockley is the author of six poetry collections and the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her honors include the 2023 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Lannan Literary Award, the Stephen Henderson Award, and, twice, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry.

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Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Evie Shockley Reads Rita Dove

Kevin Young