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SUMMARY:Meet Poet Claudia Rankine
LOCATION:Parma-Snow Branch\nParma-Snow Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Poet Claudia Rankine will visit to discuss her powerful\, awar
 d-winning book <i>Citizen: An American Lyric</i>. .\nhttps://cuyahoga.libn
 et.info/event/920062
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Claudia Rankine is the author of <em>Citiz
 en: An American Lyric</em> and four previous books\, including <em>Don&rsq
 uo\;t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric</em>. A provocative meditation o
 n race\, <em>Citizen</em> recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing 
 encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. The book w
 as a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry and the National 
 Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and has won the National Book Criti
 cs Circle Award in Poetry\, the NAACP Image Award\, L.A. Times Book Prize 
 and PEN Open Book Award.</p>\n<p>Rankine is a chancellor of the Academy of
  American Poets\, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize\, and a cont
 ributing editor of Poets &amp\; Writers. She is also the Frederick Iseman 
 Professor of Poetry at Yale University.</p>\n<p>Rankine will be joined at 
 this event by Ohio Poet Laureate\, Dave Lucas. Born and raised in Clevelan
 d\, Lucas earned his B.A. (English) at John Carroll University\, M.F.A. (C
 reative Writing) at the University of Virginia\, and M.A. and Ph.D. (Engli
 sh Language and Literature) at the University of Michigan. His first book 
 of poems\, <em>Weather</em>\, received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poe
 try. He has been awarded a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Communit
 y Partnership for Arts and Culture and a 2016 Cleveland Arts Prize.&nbsp\;
 </p>\n<p>Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac'
 s Backs - Books on Coventry.</p>\n<hr />\n<p><strong><em>This event is par
 t of the NEA Big Read and is presented in partnership with The Center for 
 Arts-Inspired Learning\, Ohio Humanities\, and The Baker-Nord Center for t
 he Humanities at Case Western Reserve University.</em></strong><strong><em
 ></em></strong></p>\n<p><em>This program is made possible\, in part\, by O
 hio Humanities\, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Human
 ities. Any views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in 
 this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment 
 for the Humanities.</em></p>\n<p><em><img src="https://attend.cuyahogalibr
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