Occupation Professor Role Poet Name Claudia Rankine | Genre Poetry; Playwright Nationality American | |
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Alma mater Williams College;
Columbia University Awards NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Education Williams College, Columbia University Nominations National Book Award for Poetry Books Citizen: An American Lyric, Don't Let Me Be Lonely: A, The end of the alphabet, Plot, Nothing in Nature is Private Similar People Natasha Trethewey, Juliana Spahr, Lisa Sewell | ||
The making of citizen claudia rankine woodberry poetry room
Claudia Rankine (; born 1963) is a poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays.
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- The making of citizen claudia rankine woodberry poetry room
- Claudia rankine s poem stop and frisk
- Life and work
- Awards and honors
- Selected publications
- References
Her most recent work, the book-length poem, Citizen: An American Lyric, won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Award, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry (the first book in the award’s history to be nominated in both poetry and criticism), the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the 2015 NAACP Image Award in poetry, the 2015 PEN Open Book Award, the 2015 PEN American Center USA Literary Award, the 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award and the 2015 VIDA Literary Award. Citizen was also a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and was the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize. Citizen holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.
Rankine's numerous awards and honors include the 2014 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, as well as a 2014 Lannan Foundation Literary Award. In 2005, shee was awarded the Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets. She is a 2016 United States Artist Zell Fellow and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow.
Rankine has recently held a position at Pomona College. She is presently the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Claudia rankine s poem stop and frisk
Life and work
Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and educated at Williams College and Columbia University. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Harper's, GRANTA, the Kenyon Review, and the Lana Turner Journal. She also co-edits (with Lisa Sewell) the anthology series American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language.
Winner of an Academy of American Poets fellowship, Rankine's work Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), an experimental project, has been acclaimed for its unique blend of poetry, essay, lyric and television imagery. About this volume, poet Robert Creeley wrote, "Claudia Rankine here manages an extraordinary melding of means to effect the most articulate and moving testament to the bleak times we live in I’ve yet seen. It’s master work in every sense, and altogether her own."
Rankine's play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue was a 2011 Distinguished Development Project Selection in the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage.
In 2014, Graywolf Press published her book of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric,
Rankine also works on documentary multimedia pieces with her husband, photographer/filmmaker John Lucas. These video essays are entitled Situations and are located on her website http://claudiarankine.com/.
About her work, the poet Mark Doty said: "Claudia Rankine’s formally inventive poems investigate many kinds of boundaries: the unsettled territory between poetry and prose, between the word and the visual image, between what it’s like to be a subject and the ways we’re defined from outside by skin color, economics, and global corporate culture. This fearless poet extends American poetry in invigorating new directions."