Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum was the 2021-22 host of "Poetry Moment" on WPSU.
From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including most recently “No Ruined Stone.” “La historia es un cuarto/History is a Room,” an anthology of poems selected from across her six books and translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, was published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico.
McCallum is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University and the 2021-22 Penn State Laureate.
You can find out more about her on her website.
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On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Sascha Feinstein and his work "Miss Brown to You (1915-1959)." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Barbara Crooker and her work "Autism Poem: the Grid." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Todd Davis and his poem "Of This World." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Robert Gibb and his poem "Fire Poem." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her poem "One Day." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Terrance Hayes and his poem "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum explores the work of Yona Harvey and her poem "The Dream District / January." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of K.A. Hays and her poem "My New Year's Resolution is to Become a Plant." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Jane Rohrer and her poem "In the Kitchen Before Dinner." -
On this episode of Poetry Moment on WPSU, Penn State Laureate Shara McCallum looks at the work of Gregory Djanikian and his poem "When I First Saw Snow."
