Of 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. 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. Rankine co-edits (with Juliana Spahr) the anthology series American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Harper's, GRANTA, the Kenyon Review, and the Lana Turner Journal, and she is a contributor to New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. She taught at Pomona College from 2006 to 2015. Life and work Ĭlaudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and educated at Williams College and Columbia University. In 2013, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. As of 2018, she is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. Rankine previously taught at Pomona College. She is a 2016 United States Artist Zell Fellow and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. In 2005, she was awarded the Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets. 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, and the 2014 Lannan Foundation Literary Award. It is the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. Citizen was also a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 T.S.

Her book of poetry, 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. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays. Claudia Rankine ( / ˈ r æ ŋ k ɪ n/ born Septem) is an American poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies.

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