THEME: Madness
Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry:
Madwoman; The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems; This Strange Land; Song of Thieves
and The Water Between Us (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry)
Since 2003, McCallum has served as Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, where she also currently holds the Margaret Hollinshead Ley Professorship in Poetry & Creative Writing. She has been a faculty member in the University of Memphis MFA program, Drew University Low-Residency MFA Program, Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA program, and at the University of West Indies in Barbados.
MC: Linda Dietrichson
