Poetry at Bennington presents Shane McCrae

Name: Poetry at Bennington presents Shane McCrae
Start: 2025-03-19T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-19T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College

Schedule

Wed Mar 19 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College | North Bennington, VT

Poetry reading and book signing with Shane McCrae.
Shane McCrae is the author of ten books of poetry, including the booklength poem New and Collected Hell (FSG, 2024); The Many Hundreds of the Scent (FSG, 2023); In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize; and Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010). His memoir Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping (Scribner, 2023) is a recounting of being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. He is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University.