Poet Shara McCallum to give reading Wednesday

Poet Shara McCallum will give a reading of her works Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Bloomsburg University's Monty's on the upper campus. She is the author of four books of poetry, This Strange Land, Song of Thieves, The Water Between Us and the recently released The Face of Water: New & Selected Poems. Her poems and personal essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and been reprinted in over twenty anthologies of American, African American, Caribbean, and World poetry. She was awarded a 2011 NEA Poetry Fellowship. Her appearance is part of BU's Big Dog Reading Series sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Department of English.