A discussion of pre-circulated reading drawn from Prof. Shockley’s work in progress.

Evie Shockley is an award-winning poet and critic. Her books of poetry include the new black (winner of 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry) and semiautomatic (finalist for Pulitzer Prize 2018). She is also the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011).

Additional recommended reading: * Tylias Moss, Slave Moth (2004) * Anthony Reed, ‘Establishing Synchronisms: Sycorax Video Style and the Plural Instant,’ Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing (especially pp. 59-82).

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