Poet To Share His Work At Pace University Wednesday

 Poet Shane McCrae will read from his new collection, “Blood” (Noemi Press, 2013) at noon.

The reading will be held on the Pace campus in Pleasantville at 861 Bedford Road, entrance 2 in the Mortola Library’s Birnbaum Room.

Shane McCrae is the author of “Mule,” “Blood,” and three chapbooks, most recently, “Nonfiction,” which won the Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition.

McCrae's poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Fence, Gulf Coast and elsewhere, and he has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship from the NEA. He teaches in the brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University in Louisville, Ky.

The Vox Creative Arts Series brings notable and up-and-coming authors, poets, artists and artisans to Pace University for readings and demonstrations. The series is named for Pace’s literary magazine, Vox.