Visiting Writers Series - Shane McCrae Poetry Reading

Please join us to hear Shane McCrae read his poetry. McCrae has written four full-length books of poems—Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center; finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a PEN Center USA Literary Award), Blood (Noemi Press),Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press), and The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books; winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award)—and three chapbooks. His poems and prose have appeared in many anthologies, including The Best American series, and have been published in The American Poetry Review, Fence, Boston Review, Agni, jubilat and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Oberlin College.

This event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the English Department. For more information, please contact Christopher DeWeese at christopher.deweese@wright.edu or 775-3136.