Education
She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland, with an Master of Fine Arts, and from Binghamton University in New York, with a Doctor of Philosophy She has taught at the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program
( These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara M...)
These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.
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She graduated from the University of Miami, from the University of Maryland, with an Master of Fine Arts, and from Binghamton University in New York, with a Doctor of Philosophy She has taught at the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program
The author of three poetry collections, McCallum"s work has additionally appeared in The Antioch Review, Callaloo, Chelsea, The Iowa Review, Verse, Creative Nonfiction, Seneca Review, Witness. She directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches creative writing and literature at Bucknell University. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.
2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry Shara McCallum"s first collection, The Water Between Us, may be a typical first book of poetry that moves through the torments and glories of growing up, but it is not a typical collection.
McCallum"s poems are startling in their breadth of experience and language. From the beginning McCallum asks us to free our expectations with her apt epigraph, "Only the magic and the dream are true.
All the rest"s a lie" The poems in The Water Between Us work to a compelling cumulative effect. The title of the collection, the poet’s first, refers not only to the water of birth but also to the mythological waters of memory and the unconscious.
( These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara M...)