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19 Jan


Thursday, January 19, 7:00pm
Brooklyn, NY

PSA Reading Series: Maureen N. McLane & Evie Shockley

Address

Poetry Society of America
119 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Maureen N. McLane is a poet, memoirist, critic, and educator. She has published several books of poetry, including Same Life, Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award; This Blue, Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry; Some Say, Finalist for the Audre Lorde/Publishing Triangle Award and for The Believer Award in Poetry; and More Anon: Selected Poems. Her book My Poets, was a New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. She is Professor of English at New York University.

Poet & scholar Evie Shockley thinks, creates, and writes with her eye on a Black feminist horizon. Her books of poetry include suddenly we (forthcoming 2023), semiautomatic, and the new black. Her work has twice garnered the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and appears internationally. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the Stephen Henderson Award, and her joys include participating in such communities as Cave Canem, Poets at the End of the World, & the Community of Writers. Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.

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