Claudia Rankine
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Weekend Roundup
First, feel for Steven Kraan’s Lonely Circle. Then, in the latest The Last Book I Loved, Chris Kubica shares his affection for Krabat, by the Czech writer Otfried Preußler. The story of an adventurous boy who discovers a mysterious, magical grain mill appealed…
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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Shaelyn Smith reviews Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric today in Rumpus Poetry.
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“Let America be America Again”
In an interview with The New Yorker, Graywolf poet Claudia Rankine discusses Ferguson, James Baldwin, and the experience of invisibility: “[T]he sort of execution-style shooting takes [Michael Brown’s shooting] to this whole other place that starts approaching the language of…
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Mis-Writing Race Is a Failure of the Imagination
In February at the AWP Conference in Washington D.C., Claudia Rankine gave a talk about Tony Hoagland’s poem “The Change.” Afterward, she posted a call for responses to the conversation that started at AWP, and today she posted those responses…
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An Open Letter from Claudia Rankine
Editor’s note: If you want some background on this, you can go to Claudia Rankine’s site and click on the “AWP” link. Dear friends, As many of you know I responded to Tony Hoagland’s poem “The Change” at AWP. I…