Sharan Strange’s poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies, including Bearden’s Odyssey: An Anthology of Poems Responding to the Art of Romare Bearden (2016), Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013), The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), Temba Tupu! Africana Women’s Self-Portrait (2005), Dance the Guns to Silence (2005), Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present (2004), Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry (1998), and Best American Poetry 1994.
Her work has appeared in journals in the U.S. and abroad, including Callaloo, the American Poetry Review, and Agenda (South Africa). Her writings have also been featured in The Dream Unfinished concert series #SingHerName, and in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Skylight Gallery in New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Her commissioned piece “Everyone Is a Mirror” was featured in the catalogue for the exhibition Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
