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Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric - for National Poetry Month

When: Monday, April 25, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Where: Woodland Commons, UMass Dartmouth Campus 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA 02747
Description: In Celebration of National Poetry Month -- Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine, award winning American writer, will read from and discuss her poetry collection, Citizen: An American Lyric. For her book Citizen, Rankine won both the PEN Open Book Award and the PEN Literary Award, the NAACP Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (Citizen was the first book ever to be named a finalist in both the poetry and criticism categories); and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.

Woodland Commons, 4:00-5:30pm
Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Literature, Poetry