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Jul 9, 2024 | 
pw.org | Claudia Rankine
First published in 2004, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric introduced a genre—fusing the lyric, the essay, and visual elements—uniquely suited to exploring the personal and political unrest of a volatile new century in America.
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May 28, 2024 | 
poets.org | Simon Shieh |Claudia Rankine
Skip to main contentFind and share the perfect poems. This poem is dedicated to a political prisoner who shall remain unnamed. I am sorry for what happened to you. I am sorry that this poem is all I have to offer. The world is ruled by heartless despots.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Claudia Rankine |A.A. Cristi
Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Avenue Armory presents the second program in its Making Space Public Programming Series: ANTAGONISMS: A GATHERING, Saturday, June 1, 2024 from 1pm to 7pm.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Claudia Rankine
Narrating this montage of reportage and poetic essays, Allyson Johnson captures every ounce of the pathos and shock contained in the stories of the racial injustice suffered by black athletes such as Serena Williams and others. Johnson’s measured drama and impassioned dialogue interpretations rivet the listener’s attention and awaken sensitivity to the racism that still exists in both public and private arenas. Her memorable performance provides auditory texture and impact for the audiobook.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
full-stop.net | Claudia Rankine
Dr. David Sterling Brown, Associate Professor of Shakespeare and critical race studies at Trinity College, first collaborated with The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) in 2021 as a Mellon/ACLS Scholar. He eventually joined our curation team and has since made invaluable contributions to TRII.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
kcrw.com | Claudia Rankine
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 episode on the story of America, as told through literary fiction. Over the decades Michael Silverblatt spoke with hundreds of writers about America - its foundation, its history, its challenges, and its culture. This episode reveals the story of America as the story of race.
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Jun 10, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Claudia Rankine
Rankine is best known for her award-winning book Citizen: An American Lyric, which became a New York Times bestseller. It combines short stories about everyday injustices experienced by people of colour with poems telling the stories of black men who died during confrontations with the police.
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May 30, 2023 | 
hebban.nl | Claudia Rankine
In deze fascinerende mengeling van prozagedicht en (beeld)essay onderzoekt de Afro-Amerikaanse dichteres Claudia Rankine allerlei vormen van alledaagse racisme in de westerse samenleving. Zwarte mensen worden nog steeds dagelijks geconfronteerd met ongelijke raciale verhoudingen: in terloopse opmerkingen, scheve blikken, impliciete vooroordelen.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Claudia Rankine |Kathryn Mockler
A couple of months ago I was invited to write a short fiction piece for an online journal. I happy agreed because I loved the project. But when I sat down to work on something for it, I was gripped by my familiar and what I now call my pre-writing freeze. I wouldn’t call it writer’s block—although perhaps that’s what this is.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
altaonline.com | Claudia Rankine
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows. Usually you are nestled under blankets and the house is empty. Sometimes the moon is missing and beyond the windows the low, gray ceiling seems approachable. Its dark light dims in degrees depending on the density of clouds and you fall back into that which gets reconstructed as metaphor. The route is often associative. You smell good. You are twelve attending Sts.
