Events HeLd During the 2020 BiG reaD
Claudia Rankine. Photo Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts
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NEA Big Read Keynote Address: Claudia Rankine BOOK TALK: Just Us: The Space of the Conversation (11am, 11/7) | Register here CDOR/BIG READ KEYNOTE: Making of Citizen (2pm, 11/7) | Register here Saturday, November 7, 2020 (Online events) NEA Big Read & Campus/Community Dialogue on Race Keynote Fall 2020 Visiting Writer - HSU English Department About Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, which was a National Book Award finalist and was recognized with the Forward Poetry Prize. Rankine is also known for her plays including The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her next publication, Just Us: An American Conversation, is a collection of essays forthcoming with Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. |
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