You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. Claudia Rankine makemoneypoet Change image and share on social
A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done. Claudia Rankine factfeelfelt Change image and share on social
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Claudia Rankine americanbeginningfully Change image and share on social
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows. Claudia Rankine devicelingerpast Change image and share on social
A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else. Claudia Rankine blackbodycling Change image and share on social
The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives. Claudia Rankine attemptbearblack share on social