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Poet Shane McRae to give reading at 草榴社区 Thursday, Oct. 21

Poet Shane McCrae will read from his forthcoming book "Mule" at 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Academic Instructional Center West Room 203.

The event is free and open to the public.

McCrae is the author of 2010's "Mule" and two chapbooks, "One Neither One" (Octopus Books, 2009), and "In Canaan" (Rescue Press, 2010). His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2010, The American Poetry Review, African American Review, Agni, and others. He went to school at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard Law, and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa.