An Archaelogy of Days contains new poetry from Vivian Shipley. Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor, Vivian Shipley teachesat Southern Connecticut State University where she was named FacultyScholar in 2000, 2005 and 2008. Her eleventh book, Perennial, was publishedin 2015 by Negative Capability Press and was nominated for the PulitzerPrize and named the Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. The Poet, her tenth book, was published in 2015 by Louisiana Literature Press, Southeastern LouisianaUniversity. All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Louisiana Literature Press, SLU, 2010) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, won the Sheila MottonBook Prize from the New England Poetry Club, the Paterson Award forSustained Literary Achievement and the CT Press Club Award for BestCreative Writing. Her sixth chapbook is Greatest Hits: 1974-2010 (PuddingHouse Press, Youngstown, Ohio, 2010). She has received the Library ofCongress's Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to theLiterary 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 HackneyLiterary Award for Poetry for "Foxfire."