Shara McCallum
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Life and work
McCallum was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to an African Jamaican father, Alastair McCallum, and a Venezuelan mother, Migdalia Bertorelli McCallum.[3]
McCallum graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland[4] with an M.F.A., and from Binghamton University in New York with a PhD.[5] She has taught at the Stonecoast MFA program.[6]
McCallum directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and taught creative writing and literature at Bucknell University.[7][8] McCallum is now a professor of English at Penn State University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.[9]
McCallum's work has appeared in The Antioch Review,[10][11] Callaloo,[12] Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review,[13] and Witness. Her poems can be found in a number of journals worldwide in places like the United States, the UK, Israel and Latin America.[14]
Religion
When she was a child, McCallum was raised practicing Rastafari; however when she migrated to the United States she stopped considering herself a member of any religion. Later in life, she converted to Judaism. McCallum was particularly fond of the idea that Judaism held about being part of a larger community than yourself alone. She found inspiration for her poems in the songs and practices, such as myths and rituals, of her religion. McCallum believes that her form of prayer and mediation is poetry.[14]
Honors and awards
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- 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry[1]
- Poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[3]
- Bynner award from the Library of Congress.[1]
- 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for poetry (for Madwoman).[1]
Publications
Full-length poetry collections
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- This Strange Land (Alice James Books, forthcoming)[15]
- Madwoman (Alice James Books 2017)[16]
Nonfiction
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Anthology publications
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References
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- ↑ College Park Magazine | Feature | University of Maryland Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Urhome.umd.edu (18 October 1972). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Shara McCallum, Poetry, Poems, Bios & More. Poets.org. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
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- ↑ From the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Shara McCallum || Bucknell University. Bucknell.edu (1 October 2011). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
- ↑ Shara McCallum | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers. Pw.org (16 June 2009). Retrieved 20 October 2011.
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External links
- Magdelyn Hammond, "An Interview with Shara McCallum" Script error: No such module "webarchive"., Smartish Pace
- "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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- Living people
- 21st-century American women
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
- American people of Venezuelan descent
- American women academics
- American women poets
- Binghamton University alumni
- Bucknell University faculty
- Converts to Judaism
- Former Rastafarians
- Hispanic and Latino American poets
- Jamaican emigrants to the United States
- Jamaican people of Venezuelan descent
- Jewish American academics
- Jewish American poets
- Jewish women writers
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- University of Miami alumni
- University of Southern Maine faculty
- Writers from Kingston, Jamaica
- Writers in Jamaican Patois