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Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae is the author of five previous books of poetry: In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; The Animal Too Big to Kill, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky / Editor’s Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness; Blood; and Mule. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.


Shane McCrae on the Music of the Poetic Line

"Good poets take advantage of opportunities to make meter mean."
November 3, 2023  By Shane McCrae
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“The Professor”

A Poem by Shane McCrae
April 19, 2021  By Shane McCrae
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After Carrie Kinsey’s Letter to Theodore Roosevelt

A Poem from Shane McCrae's Collection The Gilded Auction Block
February 21, 2019  By Shane McCrae
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Hell the Human Zoo

A New Poem by Shane McCrae
May 11, 2016  By Shane McCrae
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