Reading by Shane McCrae

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Poetry at Bennington welcomes Shane McCrae for a public reading of his poetry.

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.