Claudia Rankine

poet, professor and playright

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Jamaican poet and playwright, she is the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award-winner for Poetry and 2014 National Book Award-finalist for Poetry (Citizen: An American Lyric);  Henry G. Lee Professor of Poetry at Pomona College

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Claudia Rankine, award-winning poet and author of Citizen: An American Lyric, a book-length poem about the pernicious racism of American daily life, hosts the first of a three-part…

The Story of America, Pt. 1

Claudia Rankine, award-winning poet and author of Citizen: An American Lyric, a book-length poem about the pernicious racism of American daily life, hosts the first of a three-part…

from Bookworm

The discussion takes up writers who write about the racial "other." Can every writer do it successfully? Are there writers who shouldn't or can't? When is it appropriate and necessary?

Claudia Rankine: The Racial Imaginary

The discussion takes up writers who write about the racial "other." Can every writer do it successfully? Are there writers who shouldn't or can't? When is it appropriate and necessary?

from Bookworm

In discussing Claudia Rankine's Citizen, an American Lyric, we discuss the way racism catches us all.

Claudia Rankine: Citizen, An American Lyric

In discussing Claudia Rankine's Citizen, an American Lyric, we discuss the way racism catches us all.

from Bookworm

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