Visiting Writers Series: Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae’s most recent books of poetry are Cain Named the Animal, a finalist for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award, and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His powerful memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, published in 2023, describes his traumatic upbringing after being kidnapped by his grandparents when he was 3 years old. Also in 2023, he was awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Other awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer’s Award. McCrae has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

This performance is free and open to the public, no ticket is required.