Claudia Rankine: 2015 National Book Festival

Claudia Rankine discusses "Citizen: An American Lyric" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Poet Claudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including "Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric," "Nothing in Nature Is Private" and her latest, "Citizen: An American Lyric." Rankine has received several fellowships as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. She has taught writing at various colleges and currently is a professor of poetry at Pomona College. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feat...