About Shane McCrae and Bennington Review

Today's poem is "A Wolf's Skin Stretched Across A Drum"

from Bennington Review

Shane McCrae is the author, most recently, of Cain Named the Animal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
Other poems by Shane McCrae in Verse Daily:
August 2, 2022: "Our Hearts Were New" "We married in a jar with holes in the lid..."
January 27, 2016: "The Calf" "Lord I have eaten and I don't..."
January 24, 2011: "Horses Running Fast" "We married in an open field a wide..."
Books by Shane McCrae:

Other poems on the web by Shane McCrae:
"The Shout"
Three poems
Nine poems
Three poems
Four poems
"The White People in My Blood"
"In the Ditch in Which the Camera Finds My Body"
Three poems
"Banjo Yes Recalls His First Movies"
Shane McCrae on Twitter.
About Bennington Review:

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
March 20, 2023: "I am Not a Robot" by Lisa Allen Ortiz
August 11, 2022: "Ohio Mud" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
August 10, 2022: "Whitetail in the Rain Moving About" by Melissa Ginsburg
August 9, 2022: "Driving Through Mississippi After the Capitol Hill Riot" by January Gill O'Neil
August 8, 2022: "Feast with a Mouthful of Bees" by Alison Pelegrin
April 25, 2022: "When the still breathing watch the stillborn" by Stella Wong
December 15, 2021: "For the Suburban Dead" by Malachi Black
December 14, 2021: "Death Pastoral" by Virginia Konchan
December 9, 2021: "Heaven and It's Orange Flowers" by Mary Biddinger
April 4, 2021: "I Was Sorrow" by Anne Marie Rooney
April 3, 2021: "That Life" by Troy Jollimore
April 2, 2021: "The Centaur" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 31, 2021: "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by Emma Bolden
March 30, 2021: "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2020: "Advent Poem" by Peter Cooley
March 27, 2020: "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020: "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020: "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Dean Rader
March 27, 2019: Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019: "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017: "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017: "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017: "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017: "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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