Poet Claudia Rankine on Being Black and American Now

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 18, 2014

Claudia Rankine, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teacher at Pomona College, talks about her latest book of poetry Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), a personal exploration of what comes between "American" and "Citizen" when you’re an African American woman.

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