Literary Arts Series

Authors visit Bergen Community College

Claudia Rankine

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Claudia Rankine is the Literary Arts Series speaker. She will be speaking Thursday, March 29, 2018 in TEC 128. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Student Life.

Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric. She is Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, MacArthur Genius grant winner in 2016, and a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow. Born in Jamaica in 1963, Rankine earned her degree in English from Williams College. She has authored five poetry collections, plays, and edited numerous anthologies.

Reviews

New York Review of Books: ‘A New Way of Writing About Race’

New York Times: Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’

Interviews

The Guardian

NPR

New Yorker

Essays

The Meaning of Serena Williams: On tennis and black excellence

The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning

On Teaching Rankine

Notes on Failing

Photo by Elizabeth Weinberg

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