The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Juliana Spahr
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Juliana Spahr about her new book That Winter the Wolf Came, the oil industry, and writing about "difficult" topics.
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Claudia Rankine
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Claudia Rankine Takes the Stage
My stage adaptation of Citizen is not a play. In addition to winning the National Book Critics Circle for poetry, Claudia Rankine’s modern genre-bending classic Citizen is now being adapted…
Claudia Rankine and #BlackLivesMatter
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the devaluation of the black body. Despite…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Anne Marie Macari
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Anne Marie Macari about her new book Red Deer, how to write simplicity with depth and mystery, and the sacred feminine.
Citizens United
Nick Laird takes a long look at Claudia Rankine for the New York Review of Books: When we march under one banner for different causes, when we gather many different…
This Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple…
Why We Need Claudia Rankine
There’s the persistent seduction of collective amnesia, our desperate wanting to embrace a mythology that we’ve evolved. We want to erase the nightmarish truth that at one time, we were…
Notable NYC: 2/28–3/6
Saturday 2/28: Tom McCarthy reads Satin Island, a novel about writing the Great Report. 192 Books, 7 p.m., free. Claudia Rankine and Elizabeth Alexander read from their latest works. McNally…
Blatant Hybrid
Over at The Believer, Ratik Asokan chats with Claudia Rankine about Citizen, art, and how we’re constantly updating our principles: We will always fail each other. That goes without saying.…
Outrage Laced With Vulnerability
When the grand juries failed to indict Darren Wilson or Daniel Pantaleo, they added to a lineage of injustices enacted against black people in America. Rumpus contributor Kaveh Akbar speaks…
Duly Sympathetic
Over at BOMB, Claudia Rankine takes a look at the way we use our words: Tone is an everyday kind of maneuver. It disrupts and communicates aggression, disgust, dis- respect,…
Notable NYC: 10/11–10/17
Saturday 10/11: The New Yorker Festival, around town, $35 and up. Cristina Moracho launches Althea and Oliver, a novel about two friends. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 10/12: The New…