Podcast of Shara McCallum @ Miami Book Fair 2006

Shara McCallum is the author of two books of poems from the University of Pittsburgh Press, Song of Thieves (2003) and The Water Between Us (1999, winner of the 1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize). The manuscript of her third book, “The Shore," was recently completed. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and over twenty anthologies. Originally from Jamaica, McCallum directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches at Bucknell University. She is also on the faculty of the Stonecoast Low Residency MFA program. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two young daughters.

Shara McCallum reads “Dear History”:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/geoffreyphilp/dear_history.mp3

Here are the pictures from the reading @ Miami Book Fair International:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51858402@N00/sets/72157594381971284/show/

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