Shane McCrae
@akasomeguy.bsky.social
Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
Last year, Omnidawn published a chapbook I wrote, "Two Appearances After the Resurrection," and I'm so grateful! If you want to hear amazing poets, and also me, read from books Omnidawn published at around the same time: today, 1 PM Pacific! I hope to see you there! app.gopassage.com/events/omnid...
Omnidawn Fall '25 Book Launch | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.
Quiet Lightning is pleased to host a virtual event with Omnidawn Publishing for their seasonal launch of new titles, for which each author will be reading from their work. Hosted by QL director Evan K...
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January 25, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Last year, Omnidawn published a chapbook I wrote, "Two Appearances After the Resurrection," and I'm so grateful! If you want to hear amazing poets, and also me, read from books Omnidawn published at around the same time: today, 1 PM Pacific! I hope to see you there! app.gopassage.com/events/omnid...
I use this video to teach my students about amphibrachs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5Y...
zendaya is meechee
YouTube video by Gabriel Gundacker
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January 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I use this video to teach my students about amphibrachs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5Y...
And, breaking into a canter, I set off on the long road south
Which was to take me to so many strange places,
That room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge,
That room in Cambridge, this room in Cambridge
Which was to take me to so many strange places,
That room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge,
That room in Cambridge, this room in Cambridge
January 2, 2026 at 3:15 PM
And, breaking into a canter, I set off on the long road south
Which was to take me to so many strange places,
That room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge,
That room in Cambridge, this room in Cambridge
Which was to take me to so many strange places,
That room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge, that room in Cambridge,
That room in Cambridge, this room in Cambridge
The poet is necessary for the creation of the poem, and (except, perhaps, with regard to the poem intended only for performance by its author) irrelevant to its functioning.
January 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The poet is necessary for the creation of the poem, and (except, perhaps, with regard to the poem intended only for performance by its author) irrelevant to its functioning.
"[M]eter is the most fundamental technique of order available to the poet. The other poetic techniques of order—rhyme, line division, stanzaic form, and over-all structure—are all projections and magnifications of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies. They are meter writ large."
December 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"[M]eter is the most fundamental technique of order available to the poet. The other poetic techniques of order—rhyme, line division, stanzaic form, and over-all structure—are all projections and magnifications of the kind of formalizing repetition which meter embodies. They are meter writ large."
Jessica Laser's review of "Only Sing" is wonderful and I am so grateful for it! kismet-mag.com/reviews/pani...
PANIC RULES
Jessica Laser reviews ’Only Sing,’ a third collection of poet John Berryman’s Dream Songs, edited and collected from the archives by Shane McCrae.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Jessica Laser's review of "Only Sing" is wonderful and I am so grateful for it! kismet-mag.com/reviews/pani...
Today is the publication date for John Berryman’s "Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs." A few days ago, I read the book for pleasure for the first time. And though I can’t speak to the quality of my introduction, the poems are wonderful. I think you’ll like them.
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today is the publication date for John Berryman’s "Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs." A few days ago, I read the book for pleasure for the first time. And though I can’t speak to the quality of my introduction, the poems are wonderful. I think you’ll like them.
Thank God I am neither marketable nor likable.
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank God I am neither marketable nor likable.
In the--excruciating!--throes of trying to decide whether to keep using Garamond, or switch to EB Garamond.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In the--excruciating!--throes of trying to decide whether to keep using Garamond, or switch to EB Garamond.
Hi! Just in case you already have my Gmail address, which I'm phasing out, and want my new email address, it's the same as my Gmail address but with @proton.me at the end of it instead of @gmail.com. That's all! I hope you're having a good weekend!
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hi! Just in case you already have my Gmail address, which I'm phasing out, and want my new email address, it's the same as my Gmail address but with @proton.me at the end of it instead of @gmail.com. That's all! I hope you're having a good weekend!
Reposted by Shane McCrae
I have a couple of poems from my new book in the current issue of Image. Thank you to editor @akasomeguy.bsky.social for including these.
“For the Egyptians tell us Hephaestos…” - Image Journal
Invention loves desire but desire brings home war.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have a couple of poems from my new book in the current issue of Image. Thank you to editor @akasomeguy.bsky.social for including these.
On Thursday, October 9th at 7PM I’ll be reading at the Book Culture on W 112th with Phillis Levin and Rosanna Warren in celebration of Rosanna’s brilliant new book, Hindsight. I hope hope hope to see you there! Info and registration here: www.bookculture.com/event/112th-...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
On Thursday, October 9th at 7PM I’ll be reading at the Book Culture on W 112th with Phillis Levin and Rosanna Warren in celebration of Rosanna’s brilliant new book, Hindsight. I hope hope hope to see you there! Info and registration here: www.bookculture.com/event/112th-...
My gosh do I love the ending of this Dream Song from "Only Sing" (obliquely, one of Berryman's many Elegies for Delmore Schwartz). Thank you @elizabethscanlon.bsky.social and everybody at @ampoetryreview.bsky.social for publishing it. aprweb.org/poems/long-d...
American Poetry Review - John Berryman - "Long Distance"
Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 54 | No. 05
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August 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My gosh do I love the ending of this Dream Song from "Only Sing" (obliquely, one of Berryman's many Elegies for Delmore Schwartz). Thank you @elizabethscanlon.bsky.social and everybody at @ampoetryreview.bsky.social for publishing it. aprweb.org/poems/long-d...
Howdy, y'all! So, I mentioned a few weeks ago that my son makes rad videos about weather. Well, he has now created a fundraiser to help him fund that work, as well as his life goals in general. Thanks for taking a look. www.gofundme.com/f/empower-ni...
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August 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Howdy, y'all! So, I mentioned a few weeks ago that my son makes rad videos about weather. Well, he has now created a fundraiser to help him fund that work, as well as his life goals in general. Thanks for taking a look. www.gofundme.com/f/empower-ni...
It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.
August 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's nice to be reminded that the iambic pentameter line is one of the most beautiful things to have ever existed.
My son makes hella interesting videos about extreme weather events. Here's one about an outbreak of fire tornadoes, which I didn't even know were a thing before he told me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWyZ...
The California Oil Fire That Produced HUNDREDS of Fire Tornadoes
YouTube video by Nick Block
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August 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My son makes hella interesting videos about extreme weather events. Here's one about an outbreak of fire tornadoes, which I didn't even know were a thing before he told me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWyZ...
I try to write poems. I’m working on it. And I’m very grateful to everybody at @newversereview.bsky.social, especially Steve Knepper and Mary Grace Mangano, for publishing, alongside many rad poems, this poem. I tried. I worked on it. And I hope you like it. www.newversereview.com/2-3-shane-mc...
Poem by Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae, "James the Brother of Jesus Confronts His Heavenly Double at the Gates"
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July 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I try to write poems. I’m working on it. And I’m very grateful to everybody at @newversereview.bsky.social, especially Steve Knepper and Mary Grace Mangano, for publishing, alongside many rad poems, this poem. I tried. I worked on it. And I hope you like it. www.newversereview.com/2-3-shane-mc...
A few months ago, I thought I was done writing these. But maybe not quite yet? I’m so grateful to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and everybody at @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for publishing this sonnet. I hope you like it. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...
Elizabethan Sonnet on He Recalls His Time as a Student Musician as He Talks About Bombing Iran
A poem by Shane McCrae
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June 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A few months ago, I thought I was done writing these. But maybe not quite yet? I’m so grateful to @bdralyuk.bsky.social and everybody at @nimrodjournal.bsky.social for publishing this sonnet. I hope you like it. nimrodjournal.substack.com/p/elizabetha...
In the past few days, some extraordinary and heartening things have happened, and I’m feeling less down about my poems. The New York Times Book Review podcast recommended “New and Collected Hell,” and the Financial Times included it on their list of Best Summer Books of 2025! I am so, so grateful.
June 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In the past few days, some extraordinary and heartening things have happened, and I’m feeling less down about my poems. The New York Times Book Review podcast recommended “New and Collected Hell,” and the Financial Times included it on their list of Best Summer Books of 2025! I am so, so grateful.
A thing arrived in the mail today.
June 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A thing arrived in the mail today.
I guess I miss England pretty hard--I saw a Cadbury Twirl in a bodega this morning and almost started weeping.
May 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I guess I miss England pretty hard--I saw a Cadbury Twirl in a bodega this morning and almost started weeping.
This morning, for the first time in a long time--a decade?--I submitted to a journal that only accepts physical submissions (which is also a journal on my list of journals to which I'm afraid to submit), and wow it felt good and weird and good. The tactile! Communication via the mails!
April 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This morning, for the first time in a long time--a decade?--I submitted to a journal that only accepts physical submissions (which is also a journal on my list of journals to which I'm afraid to submit), and wow it felt good and weird and good. The tactile! Communication via the mails!