Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection The Many Hundreds of the Scent. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
Poem of the Week

My Twelve-Year-Old Daughter Tells Me She Feels Lonely in Quarantine

Shane McCrae
June 22, 2022
Two hands on a graphic black and white background. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Race in the Mind

Shane McCrae
June 28, 2021
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Between

Shane McCrae
November 1, 2017