Shane McCrae's most recent books of poetry are Cain Named the Animal, a finalist for the Forward Prize, and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. Also in 2023, he was awarded the Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his other awards include a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writer's Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

Other poems by Shane McCrae in Verse Daily:
March 21, 2023:   "A Wolf's Skin Stretched Across A Drum" "From which, when it     is struck, I hear my..."
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..."

Other poems on the web by Shane McCrae:
Six poems
"Having Watched the News While Abroad"
"Sonnet in Which Most of the Rhymes Fail"
"Law's Dream"
"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"

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December 19, 2024:   "Woman Posting in Parenting Forum" by Luisa Muradyan
December 17, 2024:   "Palanquin" by Matthew Zapruder
December 16, 2024:   "For So Long, I Was Foolishly Proud of The Scar on My Thumb" by Amorak Huey
December 15, 2024:   "anything that is fourteen lines" by Sydney Mayes

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