Claudia Rankine

Wednesday Series: John Ashbery and Claudia Rankine, St. Mark’s Church, NY, February 10, 1999

Recorded on audiocassette. Recording hosted by the Library of Congress.

1. Tape 1, Side A (32:04): link
2. Tape 1, Side B (32:34): link
3. Tape 2, Side A (31:51): link
4. Tape 2, Side B (32:45): link

PoemTalk #114, Discussing Claudia Rankine's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely", feat. Simone White, Kyoo Lee, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague on July 15, 2017

For complete recording and program notes go to Jacket2

Recorded live at WKCR-FM (New York) by Tom Kelly on May 17, 2002

1. Don't Let Me Be Lonely, part one (10:27): MP3
2. Don't Let Me Be Lonely, part two (1:12): MP3
3. Don't Let Me Be Lonely, part three (2:12): MP3
4. Don't Let Me Be Lonely, part four (2:19): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, January 22, 2005

1. Introduction (3:16): MP3
2. From Sabrina Orah Mark's "The Babies" (6:39): MP3
3. From "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (7:23): MP3
4. From "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (3:06): MP3
5. From "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (3:09): MP3
6. From "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (3:56): MP3

Complete reading (31:13): MP3

Claudia Rankine in conversation with Major Jackson, April 7, 2006

1. Introductions (4:31): MP3
2. On the American lyric (2:14): MP3
3. On epic today (2:25): MP3
4. On the significance of lyric (2:49): MP3
5. "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" and form (2:36): MP3
6. On process (0:34): MP3
7. On memory (1:47): MP3
8. On politics (3:00): MP3
9. On creating space (6:28): MP3
10. On imagery in "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (1:36): MP3
11. On language (2:53): MP3
12. On contemporary black writers (1:23): MP3
13. On the academy (1:50): MP3
14. On her students (0:31): MP3
15. On bodies (3:30): MP3

Reading at the Holloway Series at UC-Berkeley, October 12, 2006

1. Introduction (6:06): MP3
2. Black-Blanc-Beur (5:08): MP3
3. Backed Up In The Soul (Taken From CNN) (4:20): MP3
4. A Thing (4:19): MP3
5. 2 (4:01): MP3
6. From "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (4:54): MP3
7. From "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" (9:01): MP3

Reading for Double Change, Paris, December 20, 2010

Audio available from Double Change archives.

1. Black-Blanc-Beur (6:09): MP3
2. 2 (4:16): MP3
3. That Once Were Beautiful Children (4:05): MP3
4. On videos (4:35): MP3
5. From "Citizen: An American Lyric" (10:54): MP3
6. The Health of Us (3:33): MP3
7. Untitled poem (5:04): MP3
8. On poems in conversation (2:26): MP3
9. On video process (5:12): MP3
10. On new work (4:59): MP3

Complete Reading (51:18): MP3

1. Introduction (3:53): MP3
2. That Once Were Beautiful Children (6:19): MP3
3. The Health of Us (2:42): MP3
4. From "Citizen: An American Lyric" (24:27): MP3
5. From "Citizen: An American Lyric" (9:26): MP3
6. On lyric (3:02): MP3
7. On social biography (3:28): MP3
8. On Jamaican experience (4:44): MP3
9. On the Open Letter Project (7:32): MP3
10. On the visual (3:47): MP3

Complete Reading (1:08:55): MP3

Appearing on "Between the Covers," hosted by David Naimon, KBOO-FM, Portland, November 13, 2014

Complete Program (1:00:10): MP3

Temple University, Creative Writing Program, March 20, 2015; intro: Jena Osman

(54:23): MP3

Claudia Rankine on PennSound Daily

February 13, 2011: "New PennSound Featured Resources Selected by Marcella Durand"

Reading with David Mura, Library of Congress, Montpelier Room, November 30, 1995

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