Shara McCallum to Publish Fourth Collection With Alice James Books
Alice James Books welcomes back poet Shara McCallum for her fourth AJB collection, Behold, forthcoming in September 2026.
On Behold, Alice James Executive Director and Publisher Carey Salerno says: “Behold traverses territory McCallum is known for: history, interiority, identity, the way bodies present themselves in the world. The poems also feel so deeply intimate. The lyrics drive the musicality of the soul, and the prose pieces bring a swordlike sharpness of observation and interconnection to the book's landscape.
These poems communicate about fulfillment, connection, the labor of seeking, loss and missing, and the history carried within the speaker. They are meditations on the existence of place within us, the way it is seeded within and seeds us.”
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Poems to appear in Behold published in Pleiades.
From Jamaica and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, Shara McCallum is the author of seven books of poetry, published in the US & UK, including Behold, forthcoming in 2026. Awards for her work include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Musgrave Medal, NEA Fellowship, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for No Ruined Stone, OCM Bocas Caribbean Poetry Prize for Madwoman, Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for The Water Between Us, among others. McCallum teaches at Penn State University and from 2021-22 served as the Penn State Laureate. For more information, please visit her website: www.sharamccallum.com
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