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Shara McCallum Wins 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
2021-2022 Penn State Laureate and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Shara McCallum has won the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her most recent collection, No Ruined Stone. Named for celebrated African-American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, the Hurston/Wright Foundation is a national organization of Black writers; its annual Legacy awards recognize exceptional poetry, fiction, and
nonfiction by Black writers from the U.S. and beyond. This year's judges praised No Ruined Stone as a "carefully researched, historical, and haunting book," and a "beautiful and deeply imaginative work" that "proves poetry's power to strike at the heart of complacency for all the talk and talk and talk of equality, freedom, and the rights of women."
Congratulations, Shara, on this award and the continued success of No Ruined Stone!
2021-2022 Penn State Laureate and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English Shara McCallum has won the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her most recent collection, No Ruined Stone. Named for celebrated African-American writers Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, the Hurston/Wright Foundation is a national organization of Black writers; its annual Legacy awards recognize exceptional poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Black writers from the U.S. and beyond. This year's judges praised No Ruined Stone as a "carefully researched, historical, and haunting book," and a "beautiful and deeply imaginative work" that "proves poetry's power to strike at the heart of complacency for all the talk and talk and talk of equality, freedom, and the rights of women."
Congratulations, Shara, on this award and the continued success of No Ruined Stone!