Renowned writer Claudia Rankine visiting Auburn University
Poet, playwright and cultural critic Claudia Rankine will visit Auburn's campus for a series of special events from Feb. 4-5, 2025.
The series begins on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 6 p.m. at The Jule, where Rankine will engage in conversation with Alabama poet laureate Ashley M. Jones. Due to limited seating, reservations are required for this event. Reserve your seat at The Jule website.
On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Rankine will host an open Q&A session at 4 p.m. in Mell Classroom Building Room 4550, followed by an evening reading and conversation with Dr. Ernest L. Gibson, III at the Telfair Peet Theatre at 6:30 p.m. A reception will precede the event at 5:30 p.m. and books will be available for purchase from Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers.
Recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, 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"; and is the editor of several anthologies, including "The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind." Her first published play, "The White Card," was published with Graywolf Press in 2019.
She also co-produces a video series, "The Situation," alongside John Lucas, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination.
Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers' Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Her most recent publication, "Just Us: An American Conversation" (Graywolf, 2020), is a collection of essays.
Rankine's visit is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities, Department of English, School of Communication and Journalism, Department of History, Department of Theatre and Dance, African American and Africana Studies, and Strategic Initiatives and Programs in the College of Liberal Arts; the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art; Alabama State Council on the Arts; and the Alabama Humanities Alliance.
For more information, visit aub.ie/rankine.
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