Claudia Rankine Q&A and Reading

The Emerson College WLP Reading Series continues on Wednesday, April 29th, with award-winning poet Claudia Rankine. There will be a Q&A with Rankine at 4:00pm, followed by a reading of her work at 6:00pm. The event will take place in the Bright Family Screening Room, located in the Paramount Center, at 559 Washington Street, Boston, MA. This event is free and open to the public.

Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric; Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; Plot; The End of the Alphabet; and Nothing in Nature is Private. In 2014 she was a National Book Award Finalist and also received Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition. Rankine co-edited the anthologies The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, and her work is included in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Best American Poetry 2001, Giant Step: African American Writing at the Crossroads of the Century, and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry.