 Bucknell University poet Shara McCallum will speak at SUNY Fredonia on Sept. 22 as part of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers’ Series. |
The Mary Louise White Visiting Writers’ Series at SUNY Fredonia will host a craft talk with author Shara McCallum. The event will be held Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in 202 McEwen Hall. The event is free, open to the public, and will include a Q & A and book-signing session with Ms. McCallum.
McCallum is a Caribbean-American poet who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. She is an associate professor of English and the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa.
McCallum is the author of four poetry books, “This Strange Land,” “Song of Thieves,” “The Water Between Us,” and “The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems.” Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, and has been reprinted in over 20 anthologies of American, African-American, Caribbean, and World poetry.
The Mary Louise White Visiting Writers’ Series at SUNY Fredonia is a series of nationally acclaimed visiting writers who work directly with students in small workshops as well as lecture settings. The series gives students an exciting, first-hand opportunity to work with some of the very authors they study.
Previous series writers include Lee Ann Roripaugh, Ilya Kaminsky, Allison Joseph, Benjamin Percy, Sarah Gambito, Brian Turner, Denise Duhamel, John McNally, Steve Almond, Oliver de la Paz, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jeffrey McDaniel, Patrick Rosal, Erika Meitner, Nick Carbo, Matthea Harvey, Edwige Danticat, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Biddinger, and Gabriel Welsch.
To learn more, contact SUNY Fredonia English Professor Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
