Shane McCrae’s most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) and In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Poetry, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award, and was nominated for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the NEA. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Mar/Apr 2019
Jim Limber in Heaven Writes His Name in Water
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. You walk through Heaven anywhere to any- where on that soft green grass or nowhere it Don’t matter anywhere you walk a bright And […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2019
From the Ground It Must Have Looked Like Its Wings Were Not a Part of It
I rode to Heaven on a bird that did- n’t look like any bird I ever saw Before I saw it the bird’s wings were wide And long and brightly […]
Winter 2013
After the Uprising
Well some of us escaped into the swamp and some of us Snuck back quick to our masters and our masters knew who stayed and who
Summer 2009
Continuing; Sightseeing
Continuing Dear Lord if this is what I make of my / Body why give me Lord a body if It might have been like all creation beautiful Why give it Lord […]
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae’s most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) and In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 […]