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Claudia Rankine Writes Necessary Narratives about Race in America

During Black History Month, we are taking the opportunity to celebrate some of the many incredible Black woman artists that we know and love. Our next artist is the brilliant Claudia Rankine!

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright, best known for her highly-acclaimed poetry collection, Citizen: An American Lyricread more.

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3 Books By Black Women That Reshaped My View on Poetry

FF2 Guest Post by Joycelyn Ghansah

Books have always been my comfort zone, but I’ve noticed that poetry was one area of literature that I rejected in the past. In my experience, the poetry we were required to read in high school was great, but it wasn’t made for me. So, I spent most of my time avoiding poetry until relatively recently.… read more.

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