Essays

Shara McCallum has been writing and publishing personal essays and essays on poets and poetics for the past twenty-five years. A sample of these are made available here, with thanks to the editors.

Personal Essays

“Through a Glass, Darkly” (The Southern Review)

“Not Sound But the Memory of Sound” (Fourth Genre)

On Poets & Poetics

“Mervyn Morris: An Appreciation and Close Reading” (SX Salon)

“Silence and the Poems of Lucille Clifton” (Mentor & Muse)