BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4622-95b668db4af9106f728267158e6f49ca@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260524T043723Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T210000 SUMMARY:Shara McCallum to read as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series DESCRIPTION:\nFrom Jamaica\, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuela n mother\, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US &\; UK\, including No Ruined Stone. McCallum&rsquo\;s poems and essa ys have appeared in journals\, anthologies\, and textbooks throughout th e US\, Caribbean\, Latin America\, Europe\, and Israel. La historia es u n cuarto/History is a Room\, an anthology of poems selected from across her six books and translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Herná\; ndez\, will be published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico. In additi on to Spanish\, her poems have been translated into Italian\, French\, R omanian\, Turkish\, and Dutch and have been set to music by composers Ma rta Gentilucci and Gity Razaz. &ldquo\;Moving Still\,&rdquo\; a composit ion by Gentilucci\, premiering in September 2021 the Biennale in Venice\ , includes McCallum&rsquo\;s original text and her performance of the sa me. Awards for McCallum&rsquo\;s work include the Silver Musgrave Medal\ , for outstanding merit in the field of literature\, from the Jamaican g overnment\; the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature\, for her previ ous book Madwoman\; a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Co ngress\; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\; the Or an Robert Perry Burke Award for Nonfiction\; and the Agnes Lynch Starret t Prize for her first book The Water Between Us. McCallum delivers readi ngs\, lectures\, and workshops at universities and literary festivals in the US and internationally and has taught creative writing and literatu re at various universities. She is presently on the faculty of the Pacif ic Low-Residency MFA and is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. McCallum was appointed the 2021-22 Penn State La ureate. \;\n\n \;\n\nThe reading will take place virtually.  \; Those \;interested in attending virtually must must register in&n bsp\;advance. \;\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/even t/rolling-reading-series_sm/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

From Jamaica, a nd born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including No Ruined Stone. McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Israel. La historia es un cuarto/History is a R oom, an anthology of poems selected from across her six books and tr anslated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, will be publish ed in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico. In addition to Spanish, her poe ms have been translated into Italian, French, Romanian, Turkish, and Dut ch and have been set to music by composers Marta Gentilucci and Gity Raz az. “Moving Still,” a composition by Gentilucci, premiering in September 2021 the Biennale in Venice, includes McCallum&rsquo ;s original text and her performance of the same. Awards for McCallum&rs quo;s work include the Silver Musgrave Medal, for outstanding merit in t he field of literature, from the Jamaican government; the OCM Bocas Priz e for Caribbean Literature, for her previous book Madwoman; a Wit ter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress; a National Endowm ent for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Nonfiction; and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for her first book < i>The Water Between Us. McCallum delivers readings, lectures, and wo rkshops at universities and literary festivals in the US and internation ally and has taught creative writing and literature at various universit ies. She is presently on the faculty of the Pacific Low-Residency MFA an d is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. McCallum was appointed the 2021-22 Penn State Laureate. 

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The reading will take place virtually.   Those interested in attending virt ually must must register in advance. 

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/rolling-reading -series_sm/

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