Evie Shockley

Panel on the Work of Aldon Nielson, ALA Boston, 2023

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Featuring Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Evie Shockley, Susan Weeber, Justin Melette, Richard Flynn, Kathy Lou Schultz, Laura Vrana, Mark Scroggins, Tyrone Williams, James Smethurst, Keith Leonard, Anette Debow, Laura Hinton and Shirley Moody Turner

MLA Offsite Reading, Philadelphia, January 6, 2017

• Complete reading (3:53): MP3

Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington Bothell, North Creek Events Center, September 27-30, 2012

• Evie Shockley (6:09): MP3
• Complete recording (1:55:03): MP3


• listen to the entire event here

Poetry in Performance: National Poetry Foundation Conference on the 1980's

Recorded June 29, 2012; Featuring A.L. Nielsen, Catherine Wagner, Laura Hinton, Evie Shockley and Linda Russo.

• Evie Shockley-Duck,Duck-Redux (02:23): MP3
• Evie Shockley-Post White (01:37): MP3
• Evie Shockley-You Can Say That Again Billy (02:06): MP3
• Evie Shockley-Miles's Muse (04:48): MP3

Reading at Pennsylvania State University; April 12, 2012

1. Introduction (06:24): MP3
2. My last modernist poem #4 (01:00): MP3
3. From the lost letters of Frederick Douglass (03:38): MP3
4. Celestial (02:46): MP3
5. Ode to my blackness (01:26): MP3
6. In memory of New Orleans, as it was (01:28): MP3
7. Never after (03:38): MP3
8. A matter of balance (01:12): MP3
9. Improper(ty) behavior (02:01): MP3
10. Studies in antebellum literature ch. 5 (or, topsy-turvy) (01:36): MP3
11. Song in the backyard: a golden shovel for Rihanna (02:49): MP3
12. Thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (03:15): MP3
13. Post White (01:46): MP3
14. The farewell letters (07:32): MP3
15. On Never after (01:18): MP3
16. On visual representation (01:48): MP3
17. On the composition process (01:24): MP3
18. On rewriting a published poem (01:45): MP3
19. On hearing the poems (01:30): MP3
20. On experimental poetry and formalism (02:02): MP3
• Complete recording (56:08): MP3

MLA Offsite Reading, Town Hall Downstairs, Seattle, January 7, 2012

Complete reading (2:21): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode 233: The New Black, April 7, 2011

• Complete recording (48:04): MP3

Appearing at Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism, sponsored by the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, September 24, 2009

Part one (55:50): MP3





Part two (25:12) MP3

Reading as part of the Belladonna* Reading Series, New York, May 8, 2007

1. Introduction (2:26): MP3
2. 31 Words (05:37): MP3
3. Possibilities of poetry upon her death (01:29): MP3
4. Wheatley and Hemings have drinks in the halls of the ancestors (02:18): MP3
5. You can say that again, Billie (02:24): MP3
6. Ballad of Anita Hill (03:30): MP3
7. ode to e (01:47): MP3
8. Henry Bibb considers love and livery (04:14): MP3
9. Still there (01:38): MP3
10. Soundtrack for a generational shift (03:24): MP3
11. mesostics from the american grammar book (02:17): MP3
12. good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen) (02:53): MP3
• Complete reading (32:47): MP3

Reading as part of the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, April 15, 2006

1. Introduction (03:11): MP3
2. Pantoon landing 1976 (01:13): MP3
3. Disciple (01:20): MP3
4. Blue in green (01:35): MP3
5. A course in canvas (01:59): AMP3
6. My last modernist poem #2 (or, mugshot) (01:50): MP3
7. The last temptation (02:52): MP3
8. Cause I’m from Dixie too (03:11): MP3
9. You can say that again, Billie (02:01): MP3
10. A thousand words (12:01): AMP3
11. Atlantis made easy (01:25): MP3
• Complete reading (34:42): MP3

Appearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, Episode 77: Four Across, 2005

• Complete recording (13:40): MP3

"Coming in from the Cold: Celebrating Twenty Years of the MLA Off-Site Poetry Reading," at the Philadelphia Mariott, December 29, 2009

• Complete reading (5:23): MP3

Appearing in MLA Off-Site Reading at the Rotunda, Philadelphia, organized by Julia Bloch and Michelle Taransky, December 29th, 2009

Complete reading (1:50): MP3

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