Claudia Rankine, Citizen; An American Lyric.
Publications
- Nothing In Nature is Private (1994)
- Don't Let Me Be Lonely; An American Lyric (2004)
- Citizen; An American Lyric (2014)
Microagression
Co-edited / Co- founder
Background
Excerpt from Citizen
- American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002).
- American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (2007)
- Open Letter Project: Race and Creative Imagination (2011)
- Co - Producer of the video series, "The Situation" (2010)
- The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (2014).
- Born In 1963, in Kingston Jamaica.
Currently resides in California
Poetry included In Anthologies
- Grew up in Kingston Jamaica and moved to New York City at age 7.
- The Garden Thrives; Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1996)
- Crossroads of the Century (2000)
- Best American Poetry (2001)
- Giant Step: African American Writing at the crossroads of the Century. (2001)
- American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002)
- Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the present (2003)
- Play- Detour/South Bronx premiered at New York's Foundry Theater (2009)
Taught At;
-University of Houston
-Case Western Reserve University
-Barnard College
-Pomona College (currently)
- MFA at Columbia University
Awards
- Judge for National Book Award (2006)
- The chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2013)
- The National Endowment for the Arts (2014)
- The Lannan Literary Award (2014)
- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (2014)
- Poets & Writers' Jackson Poetry Prize (2014)
- NAACP Image Award Winner (2015)
Published Journals
-The Boston Review
-TriQuarterly
- The Poetry Project Newsletter
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_p_rankine.html#.VTRwMyHBzGe
"Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, 2014 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry." Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, 2014 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2015.
"Claudia Rankine." Blue Flower Arts RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2015.
"Claudia Rankine." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2015.
Lee, Felicia R. "A Poetry Personal and Political." The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 Nov. 2014. Web. 21 Apr. 2015.
Poet Claudia Rankine Ruminates on the Body Politic in 'Citizen'" Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2015.