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Courtesy Blue Flower Arts

Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine.

Probably in the olden times you wouldn't have traveled to Portland, Oregon, just to attend the Portland Book Festival, but now it's a matter of joining a Crowdcast. In a presentation made possible in part via a collaboration with our own Wisconsin Book Festival, the poet Claudia Rankine (Citizen: An American Lyric) and poet Jericho Brown (The Tradition, a Pulitzer Prize winner) will discuss Just Us, Rankine’s genre-blending (or genre-expanding) collection, which centers on matters of race in the U.S.

press release: As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.

Presented in partnership with The Believer Festival, Literary Arts, and The Loft's WordPlay, Claudia Rankine will appear live on Crowdcast to discuss her new book, Just Us, in conversation with Jericho Brown. Join us at: https://literary-arts.org/event/west-x-midwest-pbf-rankine-brown/