Shane McCrae
@akasomeguy.bsky.social
Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
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!
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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!
The book comes out in December, but here, now, via the New Yorker, is “Henry’s Ode,” from “Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs,” by John Berryman (edited by me). I am so grateful to everyone involved, especially Kevin Young and Hannah Aizenman. Woo, y’all! Woo! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
April 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The book comes out in December, but here, now, via the New Yorker, is “Henry’s Ode,” from “Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream Songs,” by John Berryman (edited by me). I am so grateful to everyone involved, especially Kevin Young and Hannah Aizenman. Woo, y’all! Woo! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The eye deliberate
May qualify the joy
And that which we create
We also may destroy.
May qualify the joy
And that which we create
We also may destroy.
April 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The eye deliberate
May qualify the joy
And that which we create
We also may destroy.
May qualify the joy
And that which we create
We also may destroy.
Folks, I'm reading with @rika99.bsky.social on Friday, April 18th. Jason Schneiderman will be the host, and if you're around I hope you can make it if for no other reason than to hear what Erika and Jason have to say. www.nyhistory.org/programs/poe...
Poetry in the Reading Room | The New York Historical
Celebrate National Poetry Month with a special event in the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library's historic Reading Room.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Folks, I'm reading with @rika99.bsky.social on Friday, April 18th. Jason Schneiderman will be the host, and if you're around I hope you can make it if for no other reason than to hear what Erika and Jason have to say. www.nyhistory.org/programs/poe...
Thank you everybody at Action, Spectacle for publishing a few of my poems alongside wonders: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...
Shane McCrae - poetry — Action, Spectacle
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April 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thank you everybody at Action, Spectacle for publishing a few of my poems alongside wonders: www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...
John Berryman has been a central poet in my life for more than half my life. But I never imagined his name and mine would be on the same book cover. And yet here they are, together. The book will be published in December, and I hope you like it. I still can't believe I had anything to do with it.
April 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
John Berryman has been a central poet in my life for more than half my life. But I never imagined his name and mine would be on the same book cover. And yet here they are, together. The book will be published in December, and I hope you like it. I still can't believe I had anything to do with it.
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I’m now live! Like and share to get this vital information out to people! #wxsky #tornado m.youtube.com/watch?v=R4g5...
March 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m now live! Like and share to get this vital information out to people! #wxsky #tornado m.youtube.com/watch?v=R4g5...
"New and Collected Hell" is out today! If you read it, I hope you like it. I'm grateful to Melissa and my family and everyone at @fsgbooks.bsky.social. A decade of work, a decade of hells emerging and seeming to fade only to reveal themselves as indelible. In the poem, Trump is a demonic beetle.
February 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"New and Collected Hell" is out today! If you read it, I hope you like it. I'm grateful to Melissa and my family and everyone at @fsgbooks.bsky.social. A decade of work, a decade of hells emerging and seeming to fade only to reveal themselves as indelible. In the poem, Trump is a demonic beetle.
Obviously boys should not be presidents.
February 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Obviously boys should not be presidents.
Just deleted my Twitter account! The joy! The freedom!
February 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Just deleted my Twitter account! The joy! The freedom!
"New and Collected Hell" is reviewed in the February 10th New Yorker holy moly I can hardly even think about it! I'm so grateful to Elisa Gonzalez and everybody at
@newyorker.com! Such a beautifully written review. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
@newyorker.com! Such a beautifully written review. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Poet Shane McCrae Goes Back to Hell
McCrae’s work obsessively retreads paths through Heaven, history, and eternal torment. What can we learn from his relentless investigation of suffering’s labyrinth?
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February 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"New and Collected Hell" is reviewed in the February 10th New Yorker holy moly I can hardly even think about it! I'm so grateful to Elisa Gonzalez and everybody at
@newyorker.com! Such a beautifully written review. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
@newyorker.com! Such a beautifully written review. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...