• Penelope and the Watching Fire

    Shane McCrae

    Fall 2023

    She burned the loom each

    Night, for heat. But each

    Morning it returned


    Whole, and draped with a

    Restless blue fabric

    A wave’s skeleton

    Shane McCrae’s most recent books of poetry are The Many Hundreds of the Scent and New and Collected Hell, which will be published in February 2025. His memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun, was published in 2023. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.

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