Poetry off the Shelf: Campbell McGrath

Kingsley Tufts winner and MacArthur “Genius” Campbell McGrath will deliver the keynote reading at this year’s Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest. In eight formally inventive collections, McGrath has established himself as a gifted inheritor of Whitman’s impulse to explore the fullness of the American psyche and landscape. Wit and irony shape his work, but so, too, does the sublime, or, as he writes “the self and the soul in the darkness / chanting to the ecstatic chance of existence.” He teaches at Florida International University.

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