SHANE MCCRAE is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, the 2023 Arthur Rense Poetry Prize, the 2022 Michael Marks Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. McCrae teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York. Sample some of McCrae’s work at Poets.org. Read ore about McCrae’s memoir in this wonderful review in this article in this New York Times Magazine article by Wyatt Mason

WHAT IS THE GEORGIA POETRY CIRCUIT? Founded at Mercer University in 1985, the Georgia Poetry Circuit is a consortium of ten Georgia colleges and universities working together to bring three poets of national and international reputation annually to all members’ campuses, providing an important access to the literary arts for Georgia residents across the state.

At each school, each Circuit poet gives a free and open reading of his/her work. Visiting poets also meet with creative writing students at each campus for workshops, talks, or extended question and answer sessions. In addition to the opportunity to hear work from diverse writers of national and international reputation, the Circuit events provide Georgia students with an immensely valuable educational opportunity for interaction with many of the best contemporary poets in and outside the United States. Past GPC poets include Adrian Matejka, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sholeh Wolpe, Kevin Prufer, and Kim Addonizio, Patrick Rosal, Chen Chen, Ashley Jones and so many others!

THE BOOK LADY is a co-sponsoring partner with Savannah State University and Estuary Arts Club, SSU’s student organization, in order to bring GPC poets to the bookshop for a FREE, open to the public, reading and discussion. Our mission is to connect authors and readers, so please join us!