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Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of Image. [2] McCrae was the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award , [3] and in 2012 his collection Mule was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award [4] and a PEN Center USA Literary Award. [5]
Jul 27, 2023 · At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.
- Wyatt Mason
McCrae is the author of several poetry collections, including Mule (2011); Blood (2013); The Animal Too Big to Kill (2015); In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Gilded Auction Block (2019).
Shane McRae (born July 23, 1977) is an American actor. In 2017, he joined the cast of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete in the role of Taylor. He also played Dickie Barrett in the Spectrum Original series Paradise Lost.
YearTitleRoleNotes2023Knox4 episodes2022Aaron Pritchard9 episodes2020Dickie Barrett10 episodes2016Benjamin ToddEpisode: "Hey"Shane McCrae is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Many Hundreds of the Scent (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023); Cain Named the Animal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022), a finalist for the Forward Prize; Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize,...
McCrae sees a new golden age of political poetry dawning now, intertwined with confessional poetry. “It has to do with identity,” he explains; poets from marginalized backgrounds “are asserting the right to confess identity-based harm they have suffered, or celebratory joy.
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Mar 30, 2023 · Associate Professor Shane McCrae discovered his passion for poetry on October 25, 1990. After watching a movie during high school about someone who had read Sylvia Plath—and had thought about suicide—he felt so inspired that he wrote eight poems that day.
