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Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City.

Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including "Citizen: An American Lyric" and "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely"; two plays including "The White Card," which premiered in February 2018 and will be published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and "Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue"; as well as numerous video collaborations. She is also the editor of several anthologies including "The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind." In 2016, she cofounded The Racial Imaginary Institute. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Claudia Rankine

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Books from Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Just Us: An American Conversation

The White Card: A Play

The End of the Alphabet

Plot

The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind

Citizen: An American Lyric / Natives / Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race

American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language

Die Deeper into Life

Dawoud Bey: Two American Projects

Fannie + Freddie: The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography

American Poets in the 21st Century: The Poetics of Social Engagement

nY #35

Sound & Fury/ Blunt Object

New Ohio Review Issue #10

Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems, A Graywolf Anthology

The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization

Citizen: An American Lyric