WebbBY SHARA McCALLUM Begin in the corner of a room: a young woman seated at a desk trying to make sense of a myth and her place within it through lines of poetry. She has no idea where the story will lead but knows the story is all there is to ferry her safely across this river: the Styx, the literal and symbolic divide between her and her mother. Webb4 juli 2024 · Poetry Moment on WPSU is a program featuring the work of contemporary Pennsylvania poets. Host Shara McCallum is this year’s Penn State Laureate.
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Webb9 mars 2024 · Shara McCallum's most recent poetry collection, Madwoman (Alice James Books, 2024), won the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in poetry. Themes love About Shara McCallum > sign up for poem-a-day Receive a new poem in your inbox daily. Email Address. Sign Up. WebbShara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1] McCallum is the author of four collections of poems, including Madwoman, which won the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category.[2] She currently lives in Pennsylvania. ora and dr. summer vacation
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Webb23 maj 2024 · Editors’ Note: We are thrilled to present “Madwoman: A Forum on Shara McCallum’s Poetics.” Madwoman, McCallum’s fifth book (Alice James Press, 2024) is a tour de force.These poems pursue the complexities of womanhood through myth, memory, and persona vis-à-vis an array of poetic forms, including the ghazal, which invites the … Webb7 feb. 2024 · McCallum’s “Madwoman as Rasta Medusa” aligns the titular character from her book Madwoman with Medusa to express Madwoman’s righteous anger at the “wanton” and “gravalicious” ways of a Babylon... WebbOriginally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of four previous books of poetry: The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); This Strange Land (Alice James Books, US, 2011), a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003); and The Water … ora a houston