Charif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, and winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Mr. Shanahan’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, PBS NewsHour, and Poetry, as well as in the recent anthologies American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time (Graywolf Press, 2018; ed. Tracy K. Smith) and African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Library of America, 2020; ed. Kevin Young). He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant to Morocco, among other awards and recognitions. Currently, Mr. Shanahan is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing in the undergraduate and Litowitz MFA+MA programs at Northwestern University.
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Zalaznick Reading Series
The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading by Charif Shanahan
Thursday, March 18, 2021, 7pm EDT
Event Overview
In this year’s Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading, poet Charif Shanahan will read from his work, sharing selections from his first collection, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, along with a sneak peek at his forthcoming poetry.
“I’m motivated by the unifying potential of the lyric poem, the way a voice speaking subjectively from its own experience can reach across boundaries of all sorts (period, geography, race, culture, gender, sexuality, etc.) to the spirit of another, apparently ‘different,’ person”.
The reading will be followed by a live Q&A moderated by associate professor Joanie Mackowski.
This reading is made possible by Eamon McEneaney’s Cornell teammates, family, and friends. In addition to being one of Cornell’s most talented and best-loved athletes, Eamon McEneaney ’77 was a dedicated husband and father, loyal friend, prolific writer and poet, and an American hero. He died on September 11, 2001, in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading marks the third virtual event in the Spring 2021 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: Together. Each semester, writers ranging from debut poets to internationally renowned authors visit the Cornell campus as part of the Zalaznick Reading Series. Sponsored by the Zalaznick family and hosted by the Creative Writing Program, this series has educated and entertained students and the broader Cornell community alike. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spring 2021 edition of the series has gone virtual, so from the intimacy of their homes to ours, a lineup of renowned writers will share their work.
“I’m motivated by the unifying potential of the lyric poem, the way a voice speaking subjectively from its own experience can reach across boundaries of all sorts (period, geography, race, culture, gender, sexuality, etc.) to the spirit of another, apparently ‘different,’ person”.
The reading will be followed by a live Q&A moderated by associate professor Joanie Mackowski.
This reading is made possible by Eamon McEneaney’s Cornell teammates, family, and friends. In addition to being one of Cornell’s most talented and best-loved athletes, Eamon McEneaney ’77 was a dedicated husband and father, loyal friend, prolific writer and poet, and an American hero. He died on September 11, 2001, in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading marks the third virtual event in the Spring 2021 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: Together. Each semester, writers ranging from debut poets to internationally renowned authors visit the Cornell campus as part of the Zalaznick Reading Series. Sponsored by the Zalaznick family and hosted by the Creative Writing Program, this series has educated and entertained students and the broader Cornell community alike. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spring 2021 edition of the series has gone virtual, so from the intimacy of their homes to ours, a lineup of renowned writers will share their work.
Speaker
Charif Shanahan
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
Northwestern University
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, English Department, Northwestern University
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