Visiting Writers Series Reading with Whiting & Lannan Literary Award Winner Shane McCrae
Schedule
Mon Oct 07 2024 at 07:30 pm
Location
Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts | Indianapolis, IN
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Join Butler MFA for a Visiting Writers Series reading with Whiting and Lannan Literary Award winning author Shane McCrae!Shane McCrae is the author of nine books of poetry. His most recent books of poetry are "Cain Named the Animal," a finalist for the Forward Prize and long-listed 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 teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York, New York.
Visiting Writers Series readings are non-ticketed and open to the public.
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Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts, Indianapolis,IN,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
