[Yale-readings] TUESDAY, 10-28, 4pm: A Celebration of New Writing

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Young African American Poets: A Celebration of New Writing
Poetry Readings by Evie Shockly, Douglas Kearney,
and Amaud Jamal Johnson
Tuesday, October 28, 4pm
Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street

Please join us for a poetry reading by three outstanding young African American poets on Tuesday, October 28, 4pm. Information about the poets and links to examples of their work follow. The reading is co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series and New Ideas in African American Studies. This event is free and open to the public. For additional information about poetry at the Beinecke Library visit: http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/.
PLEASE NOTE: This event will take place at the Slifka Center, 80 Wall Street.

Evie Shockley is the author of a chapbook, The Gorgon Goddess (2001), and the collection a half-red sea<http://www.carolinawrenpress.org/books.html> (2006). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Fascicle, Hambone, HOW2, and Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry, and other journals and anthologies. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University.
http://www.kickingwind.com/040707.html
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/evie_shockley/
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2007fall/shockley.shtml

Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and teacher. His work has appeared in Callaloo, jubilat, Ninth Letter, and other journals. His first full-length collection of poetry, Fear, Some<http://www.redhen.org/bookDetail.asp?bookID=205>, was published in October 2006.
http://www.douglaskearney.com/
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/douglas_kearney/index.shtml
http://www.calarts.edu/news/26-sep-2008/facultymemberdouglaskearneyselected2008nationalpoetryseries

Amaud Jamaul Johnson is a former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared in New England Review, Poetry Daily, From the Fishouse, and other journals. He teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His first book, Red Summer<https://www.tupelopress.org/ajjohnson.shtml>, was the winner of the 2004 Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press.
http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/amaud_jamaul_johnson/index.shtml
http://www.vqronline.org/author/5637/amaud-jamaul-johnson/
http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/amaud_jamaul_johnson01.shtml



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