Claudia Rankine

Living Poets Society, the BBS in-store poetry bookclub, will be reading and discussing Citizen by Claudia Rankine for March.

The Living Poets Society Bookclub is open to the public and meets at 7pm on the second Tuesday of every month in the Upper North Room of Boulder Book Store. Unless otherwise noted, the author will not be present at the discussion.

Location: Street: 1107 Pearl St City: Boulder, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80302 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)

Left Bank Books

Join us for a reading group discussion of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine!A finalist for the 2014 National Book Award, Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society.

Parking: Lots one block north and one block east; street parking (meters free after 7pm).

For directions and public transportation information, click here.

Location: Street: Left Bank Books Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)

The Poetry Reading Group will meet at Around the Corner Cafe on February 15th at 3 pm to discuss Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.

If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount).

For more information about the group or to join please contact Carol at cgraser@northshire.com.

Location: Street: Around the Corner Cafe Additional: 422 Broadway City: Saratoga Springs, Province: New York Postal Code: 12866 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)

The December installment of the Avid Poetry Series will take place on December 5, 2014, at 7:00pm at Cine in downtown Athens featuring Claudia Rankine and Lindsay Tigue. There is no admission charge.

Claudia Rankine is the author of four previous books, including Don't let me be lonely: An American Lyric. She currently serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Pomona College. Most recently, she was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry.

Lindsay Tigue's writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Blackbird, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, CutBank, and Passages North, among others. She was a 2013 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and a 2012 winner of the Indiana Review 1/2 K Award. She recently finished the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University and began the PhD program in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Location: Street: 234 West Hancock Avenue Additional: City: Athens, Province: Georgia Postal Code: 30601 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (lisätietoja)