Jason R. McCall
Assistant Professor
Bio
Jason McCall holds an MFA from the University of Miami. His collections include Two-Face God; Dear Hero, (winner of the 2012 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize); Silver; I Can Explain; and Mother, Less Child (co-winner of the 2013 Paper Nautilus Vella Chapbook Prize). He and P.J. Williams are the editors of It Was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. He is an Alabama native.
Research Interests
- Creative Writing (Poetry)
Courses Taught
- EN 697 - Independent Study
- EN 695 - Thesis Defense
- EN 694W - Directed Final Project
- EN 690 - Thesis
- EN 658W - Creative Writing Craft
- EN 657 - Creative Writing Pedagogy
- EN 645W - Seminar in Creative Writing
- EN 635W - Publishing Practicum
- EN 602W - Intro to Grad Study - Writing
- EN 565 - Contemporary Poetry
- EN 556W - Adv Creative Writing: Poetry
- EN 495W - Selected Topics in Writing
- EN 491W - English Senior Seminar
- EN 465 - Contemporary Poetry
- EN 456W - Adv Creative Writing: Poetry
- EN 355W - Genres in Creative Writing
- EN 324 - The Oral Tradition
- EN 255 - Creative Writing Appreciation
- EN 231 - Literature of the World I
- EN 221 - Am Lit through Whitman
- EN 112 - First-Year Composition II
Education
- Creative Writing (MFA)
University of Miami - Classics (BA)
The University of Alabama
Selected Intellectual Contributions
- Jason R. McCall. 2021. "824 Words". The Under Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2021. "Tha Carter V Means The South's Not Dead, Either". Sundress Publications 2020 Best of the Net Anthology
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "Are They Black Owned?". Gravy
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "I Know I've Been Changed". Random Sample Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "My Dad Still Watches the NFL". The Under Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "My Grandmother’s Pound Cake Is as Close to Communion as I’ll Ever Get". Gravy
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "My Great-great-great-great Grandfather Who Owned My Great-great-great-great-great Grandmother Shares My Birthday and Also Moonlighted as a Silversmith". Random Sample Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "The White Face of Michael Myers". Drunk Monkeys
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "When It’s Hard to Name Your Favorite Restaurant Because It’s Hard to Name the Dead". Gravy
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "When My Wife Gets to Tell You About White Sauce". Gravy
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. "When the Automatic Faucet Refuses to Serve Me". Random Sample Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2020. A Man Ain't Nothin'.
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "5,000 Days". Quarterly West
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "Bury Me in Gold #2". Words, Beats, and Life
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "Bury Me in Gold". Words, Beats, and Life
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "For the 95 Bodies Found on the Imperial Sugar Plantation". The Summerset Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "I'm Glad John Henry Died". Words, Beats, and Life
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "John Henry's Son Plots Revenge". The Summerset Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "Polly Ann's Hammer #1". The Summerset Review
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "Review: City of the Future by Sesshu Foster". Entropy
- Jason R. McCall. 2019. "Who Are You?". Marsh Hawk Press