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Distinguished Writers Series - Claudia Rankine

Nov 19, 2020 | 6:30 pm
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The Distinguished Writers Series at Hunter College invites you to join us online as Claudia Rankine discusses her poetry collection Just Us.

Recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don't Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Citizen: An American Lyric was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (it was also a finalist in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award's history to be a double nominee), the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry. She lives in New Haven, CT and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.

This event will be held online via Zoom. 

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https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting/calendar.shtml
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MFA Creative Writing Program
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