Jamaican-born poet to read next week

Born in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents, Shara McCallum is a self-described Caribbean, Jamaican, American, African-American, West Indian woman writer. She will perform at Smith on Tuesday, December 4.

Shara earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and African American and Caribbean Literature from Binghamton University in New York. She is currently a professor of English and the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University.

The reading, which begins at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, will be held in Stoddard Hall Auditorium, and will be followed by a book sale and signing. The event is free and open to the public.