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SUMMARY:Inprint Claudia Rankine Reading
DESCRIPTION:General admission tickets to the Inprint Claudia Rankine Reading are now sold out. Season subscriptions are still available and will allow you admission to this reading. Season tickets are on sale here. \nClaudia Rankine will read from her new hybrid-genre work Triage\, followed by an on-stage conversation led by poet and Rice University professor Phillip B. Williams. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  \nWhether writing about intimacy or alienation\, Claudia Rankine possesses a voice of unrelenting candor that “shimmers with wisdom and fury” (The Telegraph). A MacArthur Fellow\, Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry\, including her bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric\, which explores what it means to be an American citizen in a “post-racial” society. A defining text for our time\, Citizen won the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the NAACP Image Award\, the PEN Open Book Award\, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is also the author of three plays\, including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue\, which is performed on a bus ride through the Bronx; and is the editor of several anthologies\, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. \nRankine returns to Inprint with her genre-defying new work Triage\, which collides the lyric with narrative\, memoir\, image\, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet. Triage follows the turbulent friendship between two characters\, the narrator and the theorist\, self-identified sisters struggling to define their wounded histories and their shared but separate lives. According to Jamaica Kincaid\, “Claudia Rankine’s remarkable\, outstanding odyssey—an account of our present\, which is also our past\, which is always our future—is beautifully rendered in a kaleidoscope of images and sensations. . . . Triage is exquisite.” \nPhillip B. Williams is the author of the poetry collections Thief in the Interior\, which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award\, and Mutiny\, which was the winner of a 2022 American Book Award. Williams also received a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His debut novel\, Ours\, won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger from France and was a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize in the UK. His latest poetry collection is Lift Every Voice. He is a professor of creative writing at Rice University. \n
URL:https://inprinthouston.org/event/inprint-claudia-rankine-reading-2/
LOCATION:Brockman Hall for Opera\, Rice University\, Entrance #18 off Rice Boulevard\, Houston\, TX\, 77005
CATEGORIES:2026/2027 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series
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