Shara McCallum

Dec 11, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Shara McCallum

through cracks in the stone foundation entered drafts of air and mice I could not bring myself to kill so trapped them in translucent boxes with a door that swung only one way in not meaning to but terrorizing them quickly dehydrating their small bodies ’til I heard frenzied scratching and hurried to free them to the frozen fields from which soon enough they’d run back reentering the warm cellar before creeping up to the kitchen larder and we’d begin again all that winter as the house seeped...

Nov 13, 2024 | swwimmiami.substack.com | Nidia Sanchez Hernandez |Robert Pinsky |Carolyn Forché |Shara McCallum

12/12 / Poetry Reading and Conversation with visiting poet-in-residence Nicole Cooley + local writer Caroline Cabrera / The Gallery at The Betsy-South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / Live and Live-Streamed on Instagram Live/Facebook Live at @swwimmiami / 7-8:30 pm EST / FreeOne workshop remains in our Workshop Series--SWWIM Lessons: From Prompt to Placement: “Surfing Submittable with Jen Karetnick – Keeping your head above water in the poetry submissions process” on 12/10 (register here).

Apr 20, 2023 | internazionale.it | Shara McCallum

Ci sono troppe poesie sul tema della tristezza Perché impilarne una in più su questo mucchio di letame [di tristezza? C’era una volta promette sempre meraviglia. [Ci ricordiamo, troppo tardi, dei boschi di tristezza senza briciole. Ti addormenti ogni notte ripetendo una bugia: domani la finirò, la mia storia d’amore con la tristezza. Una donna canta di nuovo. Chi è questa volta? Non importa. La sua voce macina la pietra per affilare [della tristezza.