On the publication of her new book, Hindsight:2020, Poems from the Pandemic
Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Vivian Shipley’s poetry collection, Hindsight: 2020.
About the Author
Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Vivian Shipley was awarded a 2020-21 CT Office of the Arts Poetry Fellowship, won the 2020-21 Poet Hunt from The MacGuffin and was the Artist’s Choice for Rattle’s October 2020 Ekphrastic Challenge. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, her 12th book, An
Archaeology of Days (Negative Capability Press, 2019) was named the 2020-21 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist and the 2020 Housatonic Book Prize for Poetry Finalist. The Poet (Louisiana Literature Press, SLU) and Perennial (Negative Capability Press) were published in 2015. All of Your Messages Have Been Erased,
(Louisiana Literature Press, SLU, 2010) won the 2011 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, NEPC’s Sheila Motton Book Award , and CT Press Club’s Prize for Best Creative Writing. Her sixth chapbook is Greatest Hits: 1974-2010 (Pudding House Press, Youngstown, Ohio, 2010). She has received the Library of Congress’s Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Literary Community and a Connecticut Book Award for Poetry two times. She won the 2018-19 Steve Kowit Prize for Poetry from San Diego Arts & Entertainment Guild and the Hackney Literary Award for Poetry.
Raised in Kentucky, a member of the University of Kentucky Hall of Distinguished Alumni, the highest award the university can bestow on an alumnus, she has a PhD from Vanderbilt University and lives in North Haven, Connecticut with her husband, Ed Harris.
To Purchase
Louisiana Literature Press
Hindsight:2020, Poems from the Pandemic
978-0945083559
97 pages, paperback, $14.95
Published: March 2022