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Claudia
Rankine
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Field of Study
Poetry
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Years Awarded
2017
Rankine’s bestselling book, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf, 2014), uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and images to explore what it means to be an American citizen. Citizen was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, (it was also a finalist in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the PEN America Center USA Literary Award, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry. Citizen was also a winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was selected as an NPR Best Book of 2014, who stated: “This collection examines everyday encounters with racism in the second person, forcing the reader—regardless of identity—to engage a narrative haunted by the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Renisha McBride.” Citizen holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf, 2008) —a multi-genre project that blends poetry, essays, and image—is an experimental and deeply personal exploration of the condition of fragmented selfhood in contemporary America. Her other collections of poetry include Plot (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and the award-winning Nothing in Nature is Private (1994). She co-produces a video series, “The Situation,” alongside John Lucas.
Her poetry, essays, art writings, interviews, and articles have been published in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines, including the New York Times, ELLE magazine, Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Poetry magazine, Boston Review, TriQuarterly, Granta, Harper’s, Oprah Magazine, Artforum, and The Poetry Project Newsletter.
In 2016, Rankine co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), an interdisciplinary cultural laboratory in which the racial imaginaries of our time and place can be engaged, read, countered, contextualized and demystified.
Profile photograph credit: Ricardo DeAratanha, Los Angeles Times
View "whiteness, inc." by Claudia Rankine and John Lucas
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