As it gets colder, why not reunite for a social reading over winter drinks? Please join us for a discussion of MHC’s Common Read for 2017 – 'Citizen: An American Lyric' by Claudia Rankine.

“Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry’s forms to disarm readers and circumvent our carefully constructed defense mechanisms against the hint of possibly being racist ourselves,” noted a New York Times review.

'Citizen' was the first book to ever compete in both the Poetry and Criticism categories of the National Book Critics Circle Awards. It was the 2014 Winner in Poetry and a Finalist in Criticism. The book has also won a number of other prizes and awards, including the 2015 PEN Center USA Poetry Award and the 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Book Prize for Poetry.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Claudia Rankine received her BA from Williams College and her MFA from Columbia University. Rankine is a Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

This event is kindly hosted by Elizabeth Eiss ’77.

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Walking distance from Columbus Circle. 
Location details upon ticket confirmation.

Refreshments will be provided.
Additional proceeds will be donated to the Annual Scholar Fund.

ISBN: 978-1-555-97690-3 (US softcover)
ISBN: 978-0-141-98177-2 (UK softcover)

Photo credit: John Lucas.