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Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of four books of poetry: The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); This Strange Land (Alice James Books, US, 2011), a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003); and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, US.

Number 85. spring 2014 Featuring Ben Fowlkes’s story, “You’ll Apologize If You Have To,” later selected for reprint in Best American Short Stories, poems from Terrance Hayes, Don Bogen, Esther Lee, H.L. Hix, Jamaal May, Caki Wilkinson, and work from many other outstanding writers.

Fjords first Special Black American Edition supports the creative art and literary community of black American authors. Guest edited by BOA Award Winner Geffrey Davis writes in the editors letter “When I first began curating artwork for this Black American Edition of Fjords Review, I felt the expected anxiety over the dirty, unavoidable politics of choice; however, it didn’t take long for.

Lia Purpura is the author of The Brighter the Veil (Orchises, 1996), Stone Sky Lifting (Ohio State, 2000) and King Baby Poems (forthcoming, Alice James Books, 2008), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her collection of essays, On Looking (Sarabande, 2006), was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore.

Born in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents, Shara McCallummoved to the U.S. at the age of nine and is a self-described Caribbean, Jamaican, American, African-American, West Indian, woman writer.Indeed, her work is infused with multiplicity and breadth, woven of the colorful thread that zigzags its way between identity and geography and passes through the places of history, memory.

Shara McCallum was born on October 18, 1972 in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents and moved to the U.S. at the age of nine. She earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and African American and Caribbean Literature from Binghamton University in New York.

Shara McCallum’s “The Volta, the Vulva, Leda, and Lucille” Posted on February 11, 2013 leda 1, leda 2, leda 3 by Lucille Clifton Some years ago, while teaching a graduate poetry workshop at the University of Memphis, I was describing the volta to the students as rhetorical and structural turning points we can identify in many poems, not only in sonnets.

Writing an assignment on the former comes under art criticism while on the latter is categorized as art history.Visual analysis is the basic component of art historical writing. Unique aspects of writing art criticism essays. This kind of an essay also is built upon strong arguments. The essay requires a defined format and structure.

Analysis of “One Art” The opening stanza of Elizabeth Bishops’“One Art”reveals the clear statement of the poem; the struggle with mastering the issue of loss. Bishop uses the significance of structure and word choice to further the meaning of the poem.

Buy Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets by Assistant Professor Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, Helena Mesa, Patricia Clark, Stanley Plumly, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Victoria Chang, Jeff Hardin, Lisa D Chavez, Shara McCallum, Mira Rosenthal, Deirdre O'Connor, Phillis Levin, A Van Jordan, Joelle Biele, Metta Sama, Susanna Rich, Elline Lipkin, Alice George, Celia Pinto, Michael.

DECEMBER 2018 Partial Symmetries: Norah Lange’s People in the Room, translated by Charlotte Whittle, and Carla Maliandi’s The German Room, translated by Frances Riddle. Editor Rebecca DeWald has a long-standing interest in Argentine literature, and has had the rare pleasure of reviewing two female Argentine authors translated into English by two female translators.