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Name
  
Shara McCallum


Role
  
Poet

Shara McCallum httpswwwpoetsorgsitesdefaultfilesstyles2

Education
  
University of Miami, Binghamton University

Books
  
This Strange Land, The water between us, Song of thieves, The Face of Water: New and

The Art Room by Shara McCallum


Shara McCallum (born Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Contents

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The author of three poetry collections, McCallum's work has additionally appeared in The Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review, Witness. She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland, with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York, with a PhD She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program. She directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.

Shara mccallum reads at the 2014 dodge poetry festival


Honors and awards

Shara McCallum Shara McCallum Voices Education Project

  • 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry
  • Tennessee Individual Artist Grant in Literature
  • Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant
  • 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

    • Published works

    Shara McCallum Shara McCallum Department of English Bucknell University

    Full-length Poetry Collections

    Shara McCallum Poetry International Online Poetry International is a world class

  • This Strange Land (Alice James Books, forthcoming)
  • Song of Thieves. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8229-5813-0. 
  • The Water Between Us. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8229-5710-2. 

    • Shara McCallum Shara McCallum On Finding Home and Avoiding Narcissism Susumba

    Non Fiction

    Shara McCallum Shara McCallum reads at the 2014 Dodge Poetry Festival YouTube

  • Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (2000). "Mary Church Terrell". African American authors, 1745–1945. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30910-6. 

    • Shara McCallum Poet reads on historical identity The Campus

    Anthology publications

  • Michael Collier, ed. (2000). The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology Series. University Press of New England. 
  • E. Ethelbert Miller, ed. (2002). Beyond the Frontier. Black Classic Press. ISBN 978-1-57478-017-8. 
  • Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3. 
  • Kei Miller, ed. (2007). New Caribbean poetry: an anthology. Carcanet. ISBN 978-1-85754-941-6. 

    • Reviews

    Shara McCallum's first collection, The Water Between Us, may be a typical first book of poetry that moves through the torments and glories of growing up, but it is not a typical collection. McCallum's poems are startling in their breadth of experience and language. From the beginning McCallum asks us to free our expectations with her apt epigraph, "Only the magic and the dream are true. All the rest's a lie"

    The poems in The Water Between Us work to a compelling cumulative effect. The title of the collection, the poet’s first, refers not only to the water of birth but also to the mythological waters of memory and the unconscious.

    References

    Shara McCallum Wikipedia
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