{"id":1727,"date":"2022-01-01T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:15:05","slug":"1-27-2022-shane-mcrae-poetry-7-pm-face-masks-required-location-tba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/1-27-2022-shane-mcrae-poetry-7-pm-face-masks-required-location-tba\/","title":{"rendered":"(1\/27\/2022) Shane McRae, poetry reading: 7 PM, Virtual Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1813 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/22134244\/Shane-McRae-Cover-196x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/22134244\/Shane-McRae-Cover-196x300.jpeg 196w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/22134244\/Shane-McRae-Cover-667x1024.jpeg 667w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/22134244\/Shane-McRae-Cover.jpeg 704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Shane McCrae <\/strong>grew up in Texas and California. The first in his family to graduate from college, McCrae earned a BA at Linfield College, an MA at the University of Iowa, an MFA at the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, and a JD at Harvard Law School. McCrae is the author of <i>Sometimes I Never Suffered<\/i>, <i>In the Language of My Captor<\/i>, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; <i>The Animal Too Big to Kill<\/i>, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky \/ Editor\u2019s Choice Award; <i>Forgiveness Forgiveness<\/i>; <i>Blood<\/i>; and <i>Mule<\/i>. His work has also been featured in <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">The Best American Poetry 2010<\/span><\/em>, edited by Amy Gerstler, and his honors include a Whiting Writers\u2019 Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_LpjKzGgDTvmTEKEWAGlsfA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Click here to register for this 1\/27 reading with Shane McCrae.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane McCrae grew up in Texas and California. The first in his family to graduate from college, McCrae earned a BA at Linfield College, an MA at the University of Iowa, an MFA at the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, and a JD at Harvard Law School. McCrae is the author of Sometimes I Never Suffered, In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}