Visiting Poet Evie Shockley: Black Poetry Day 10/19

[Nicolle Jarvis]

*Black Poetry Day Tuesday, Oct. 19th at Krinovitz Hall in Hawkins Hall
beginning at 7:00 PM*

*Evie Shockley will be our visiting poet this year for Black Poetry Day. *

Black Poetry Day celebrates the work of African-American poets in honor of
the first published African-American poet, Jupiter Hammon (a former slave
from Long Island, NY).  The day was officially recognized by the New York
legislation in 2018 in honor of Hammon's legacy. The event was established
in the 1970s by Stan Ransom, a librarian in Long Island at the time. When
Ransom moved to Plattsburgh, the celebration continued at the
Clinton-Essex-Franklin libraries. Today, SUNY Plattsburgh hosts the event
-- a program made possible with funds from the New York State Writers
Institute, the Redcay Honors program, and with the sponsorship of the
Plattsburgh College Foundation, through charitable gifts to the President's
Office and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Dr. Shockley currently teaches creative writing and African-American
literature at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  She is a Cave Canem
graduate fellow, and the winner of numerous prizes including the Holmes
National Poetry Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2018. Her books include
*semiautomatic* and *the new black.*


-- 
Dr. Tracie Church Guzzio
Director, Redcay Honors Program
Professor, Dept. of English
Africana Studies
guzziotc at plattsburgh.edu
518-564-3075
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