Claudia Rankine on TRIAGE

In Triage, acclaimed author and playwright Claudia Rankine uses prose, poetry and art images to challenge the ways we look at friendship and memory, action and obligation. Claudia joined us live from B&N Upper West Side to talk about narrative, lyric poetry, interiority, and broadening the collective we with host Miwa Messer.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books:

Triage by Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

The White Card by Claudia Rankine

Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space by Catherine Barnett

Gaza in My Phone by Mazen Kerbaj

William Kentridge: Milestones: At the Heart of Creation by William Kentridge

Anarchitecture After Everything by Jack Halberstam

Black Formations: Poetics of Refusal Within the African Diaspora by Melody Howse