An Evening with Claudia Rankine

Join us for a talk by CLAUDIA RANKINE, poet, National Book Award finalist, NEA fellow, and MacArthur "Genius Grant" receipient.The talk will be preceded by a RECEPTION, and followed by a BOOKSIGNING. Books will be for sale by the UH Bookstore at the event. Campus parking is $6. This event is FREE and open to the public. RECEPTION: 6:00-6:45 TALK AND BOOK SIGNING: 7:00-8:30 CLAUDIA RANKINE IS THE AUTHOR OF FIVE COLLECTIONS OF POETRY, including _Citizen: An American Lyric_ and _Don’t Let Me Be Lonely_; two plays including _Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue_; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including _The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind_. For _Citizen_, RANKINE WON THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (_Citizen_ was also nominated in the criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee), the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award. 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.  Among her numerous awards and honors are the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize; and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts.  Rankine is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. _This event is made possible by the late Dr. Dai Ho Chun through his estate gift, which established The Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Chair Endowment in the Colleges of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Chun was a distinguished and visionary educator._