See below From: Vanessa Perez <vanessaperezphd@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 5:58 PM Subject: Fwd: Claudia Rankine and Maaza Mengiste in Conversation: Off the Page Please distribute to faculty and students. Please join us! Bring your classes. Claudia Rankine and Maaza Mengiste in Conversation: Off the Page [cid:image001.png@01D71583.B64281F0] Date: March 17, 2021 Time: 7pm - 8:15pm Registration required: https://www.universe.com/events/off-the-page-claudia-rankine-and-maaza-mengi... Free and Open to the Public Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/American Repertory Theater) was published with Graywolf Press 2019, and Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; as well as numerous video collaborations. Her newest publication, Just Us: An American Conversation, is a collection of essays published with Graywolf Press in 2020. She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists, and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut. ____ OFF THE PAGE: Conversations with Writers is a Queens College series produced by Kupferberg Center for the Arts, the Department of English, the Provost’s Office, and the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. Curated by QC professor and author Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. Vanessa Pérez Rosario, Ph.D. Managing Editor, Small Axe www.smallaxe.net<http://www.smallaxe.net/> Becoming Julia de Burgos<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/63khp3hk9780252038969.html> available from IllinoisUP BLACK LIVES MATTER!