The reading is free, open to the public, wheelchair accessible, and will be followed by a book sale and signing. 

For more information, see the Smith College News Release or the Smith College Poetry Center website. 

Link to past SC Libraries Poetry Center Readings resource pages.

Shara McCallum

Born in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents, McCallum moved to the United States at the age of nine. She brings a new perspective to contemporary poetry, writing lyrical poems steeped in myth, legend and folklore.

She is the author of The Water Between Us, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Song of Thieves; This Strange Land; and The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems. Her poetry and personal essays have appeared widely in journals and have been reprinted in more than 20 anthologies and translated into Spanish and Romanian.

Search by author to locate <McCallum, Shara> in the Five College Library Catalog.

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Biography

Biography in Context
Includes an entry from Contemporary Authors, 2012, and The Writers Directory 2012.

Online Texts

Expanded Academic Index
Search by keyword for "Shara McCallum" to find or link to poems and reviews. Use SC Links  to connect to full text.
 

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