Publisher's Synopsis
An Archaelogy of Days contains new poetry from Vivian Shipley.
Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, Vivian Shipley teaches
at Southern Connecticut State University where she was named Faculty
Scholar in 2000, 2005 and 2008. Her eleventh book, Perennial, was published
in 2015 by Negative Capability Press and was nominated for the Pulitzer
Prize and named the Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. The Poet, her tenth book,
was published in 2015 by Louisiana Literature Press, Southeastern Louisiana
University. All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Louisiana Literature Press,
SLU, 2010) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Sheila Motton
Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club, the Paterson Award for
Sustained Literary Achievement and the CT Press Club Award 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.
Most recently, she won the 2017-18 Steve Kowit Prize for Poetry for "Cargo"
from San Diego Arts & Entertainment Guild. In 2015, she won the Hackney
Literary Award for Poetry for "Foxfire."
