The Poet and the Poem
2022-23 Series

Featured Shara McCallum

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From Jamaica and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum has published six books in the US & UK, including her most recent, No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. An anthology of her poems translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, La historia es un cuarto, was published in 2021 in Mexico. McCallum is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, is on the faculty of the Pacific University Low-residency MFA, and served as the 2021-22 Penn State Laureate. For a longer bio & further information, please visit her website: www.sharamccallum.com

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