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.[1]
The author of three poetry collections, McCallum's work has additionally appeared in The Antioch Review,[2][3] Callaloo,[4] Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review,[5] Witness. She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland,[6] with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York, with a PhD[7] She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program.[8] She directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.[9][10] She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.[11]
Honors and awards
- 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry[1]
- Tennessee Individual Artist Grant in Literature
- Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant
- 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Published works
Full-length Poetry Collections
- This Strange Land (Alice James Books, forthcoming)[12]
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Non Fiction
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Anthology Publications
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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"[13]
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.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows. Nea.gov. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
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- ↑ Project MUSE – Callaloo – Talisman. Muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ The Seneca review – Hobart Student Association, Hobart College, William Smith College, William Smith Student Association – Google Books. Books.google.com (29 February 2008). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ College Park Magazine | Feature | University of Maryland. Urhome.umd.edu (18 October 1972). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Shara McCallum- Poets.org – Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Poets.org. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ [1][dead link]
- ↑ From the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu. Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Shara McCallum || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu (1 October 2011). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Shara McCallum | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. Pw.org (16 June 2009). Retrieved on 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Alice James Books > News & Events[dead link]
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External links
- "An Interview with Shara McCallum", Smartish Pace, Magdelyn Hammond
- "Shara McCallum", Here Comes Everybody
- "Shara McCallum, Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry", YouTube
- "For Rachel, Just before Speech", ars poetica
- "The Art Room", Poetry Foundation
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- "The News", Cave Canem
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- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Living people
- Jamaican emigrants to the United States
- People from Kingston, Jamaica
- University of Miami alumni
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- Binghamton University alumni
- Bucknell University faculty
- University of Southern Maine faculty
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
- American women poets