WebbDWC Presents Poet Shara McCallum. From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books of poetry published in the US and UK, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2024 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and named a finalist for the 2024 UNT Rilke Prize. McCallum’s poems … WebbBy Shara McCallum. You will leave your home: nothing will hold you. You will wear dresses of gold; skins. of silver, copper, and bronze. The sky above you will shift in meaning. each …
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WebbShara McCallum No Ruined Stone When the dead return they will come to you in dream and in waking, will be the bird knocking, knocking against glass, seeking a way in, will masquerade as the wind, its voice made audible by the tongues of leaves, greedily lapping, as the waves’ self-made fugue is a turning and returning, the dead WebbMcCallum 2 The Face of Water: New & Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011) This Strange Land (Alice James Books, US, 2011) longlisted, 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003) The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 1999) winner, 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett … hiking trails with lots of dispersed towns
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WebbProfessional Bio. From Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2024 Hurston Wright Foundation Legacy Award for Poetry.McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and … Webb31 aug. 2024 · Called back by the roots of my hair, dirt beneath my nails, the body’s sweat and stink. Called back by their voices, yours still clenched in my fist. Called back to all … WebbOn “Husband” The question of this poem’s origins troubles the waters of memory, my own and our collective rendering of history. In telling a story, we are always reconstructing the past—putting back together what has happened before, as if the past were a body whose arms and legs have run away and can be made to return through the force of our … hiking trails weiser idaho