Swedish American Hall 2174 Market St San Francisco, CA 94114 USA
Fri
Oct 14, 2016
4:00 am
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5:30 am
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We regret that this event has been cancelled. The speaker was unable to travel to the Bay Area today due to the inclement weather. We hope to reschedule the event.

Co-presented by Museum of the African Diaspora, and supported in part by Poets & Writers, through grants it has received from The James Irvine Foundation and the Hearst Foundations

$15 advance or at the door

MoAD and Litquake welcome Claudia Rankine, an award-winning, genre-defying, groundbreaking American writer and author of the New York Times bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric ("...the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities—'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life—are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth" —Hilton Als). In conversation with author/professor Sarah Ladipo Manyika.

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, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. She lives in California and is the Aerol Arnold Chair in the University of Southern California English Department.

Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches literature at San Francisco State University. Her writing includes essays, academic papers, reviews and short stories.  

Her second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (2016) is published by Cassava Republic Press (Abuja-London). Sarah’s first novel, In Dependence, is published by Legend Press (London) and Cassava Republic Press (Abuja-London).

Please note: This program will take place at the Swedish American Hall,  2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114

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