Name Shara McCallum | Role Poet | |
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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
- The Art Room by Shara McCallum
- Shara mccallum reads at the 2014 dodge poetry festival
- Honors and awards
- Published works
- Reviews
- References

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

Published works

Full-length Poetry Collections


Non Fiction


Anthology publications
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.