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Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston Jamaica and New York City 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 and American Repertory Theater and will be published with Graywolf Press in 2019 and Provenance of Beauty A South Bronx Travelogue as well as numerous video collaborations She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind In 2016 she cofounded The Racial Imaginary Institute Among her numerous awards and honors Rankine is the recipient of the Bobb Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston Jamaica and New York City 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 and American Repertory Theater and will be published with Graywolf Press in 2019 and Provenance of Beauty A South Bronx Travelogue as well as numerous video collaborations She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind In 2016 she cofounded The Racial Imaginary Institute Among her numerous awards and honors Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Poets Writers Jackson Poetry Prize as well as 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 source site_link Arizona State University site_link The White Review 21 is the first issue after a redesign and with a new editorial team led by editors eljka Maro evi and Francesca Wade The issue features our poetry editor Kayo Chingonyi s interview with acclaimed poet Claudia Rankine exploring race in America literary form and the relationship between poetry and national emergency We are also pleased to present an interview with pioneering performance artist Joan Jonas in advance of her major retrospective at the Tate Modern in 2018 The issue features an essay by Hatty Nestor on Chelsea Manning and the ethical implications of visual representations of prisoners Alev Scott s reportage from the Balkans exploring the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and a piece by Megan Hunter about writing and pregnancy For the first time we also present a roundtable on the theme of work four writers and artists with experience of working as cycle couriers waiters in construction and in call centres engage in an open and wide ranging discussion about the way our working lives impact on our identities vulnerability in the workplace collaboration mentorship and care work This will be the first in a new series of roundtable discussions We also feature new fiction from Johanna Hedva Danielle Dutton and Sascha Macht translated from German by Amanda DeMarco poetry by Anthony Joseph Kate Potts and Meryl Pugh and artwork by Feng Li Sanam Khatibi and Chris Succo The White Review No.21