[Yale-readings] Claudia Rankine at Beinecke Library on December 5

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Mark Strand Memorial Poetry Reading - Claudia Rankine

Poet Claudia Rankine will deliver the 2023 Mark Strand Memorial Poetry Reading at 4pm on Tuesday, December 5 at the Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<https://library.yale.edu/event/mark-strand-memorial-poetry-reading-claudia-rankine>

[cid:image002.jpg at 01DA21DA.B2AF21E0]Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March 2020 (The Shed, NYC), and The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) and was published by Graywolf Press in 2019; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her recent collection of essays, Just Us: An American Conversation, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the co-editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, Rankine 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. After serving as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale from 2016-2021, Claudia Rankine joined the NYU Creative Writing Program in Fall 2021. She lives in New York. Photo by Tanya Marcuse.

About the annual Strand Memorial Reading: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/mark-strand-memorial-reading
More information: Mark Strand Memorial Poetry Reading - Claudia Rankine | Yale Library<https://library.yale.edu/event/mark-strand-memorial-poetry-reading-claudia-rankine>


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