Vivian Shipley, is a Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, teaches at SCSU. She 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. Her 13th book, Hindsight: 2020, is forthcoming in 2021 (SLU, LaLit Press). Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, 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.

Other poems by Vivian Shipley in Verse Daily:
October 27, 2020:   "Poetry Workshop" "I don't have to ask how a town is doing..."
November 29, 2003:  "Fireflies Punctuate the Night" "Our hands parentheses in the back field..."
June 8, 2003:  "If You Are in Manhattan after the First Snow" "Wait for the moon to sculpt the fire hydrant into a statue of frost..."

Books by Vivian Shipley:

Other poems on the web by Vivian Shipley:
Three poems
"What To Do About Sharks"
Three poems

Vivian Shipley's Website.

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