Making Your Own Map: Joy Harjo and Evie Schockley (2014)

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Joy Harjo and Evie Shockley explored and meditated on social issues, culture, race, and more in a reading that wove new textures of identity from a national cloth. Presented in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre, Making Your Own Map: Joy Harjo and Evie Schokley was held on March 24, 2014 at 7:30pm; tickets were $15.

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo's books of poetry include A Map to the Next World: Poems; The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award; and In Mad Love and War, which received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. Her many honors include The American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She also performs her poetry and plays saxophone with her band, Poetic Justice.

Evie Schokley

Evie Shockley is the author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea and the new black. She is also the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. Her honors include the Holmes National Poetry Prize and fellowships from Cave Canem, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. Shockley is a Professor at Rutgers University.