The next Poets and Critics Symposium will be devoted to the work of Claudia Rankine.
Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 September, 2025.
Université Paris Cité, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 8 rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris 9:45 am-5 pm, room OdG 830 (8th floor of the Olympe de Gouges Building)
REGISTER HERE by Sept. 1st
How to get there?
For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
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double change Poetry reading with Claudia RankineWednesday 24 September, 7pm
atelier Michael Woolworth, 2 rue de la Roquette, Passage du Cheval Blanc, Cour Février, 75011 Paris M° Bastille. How to get there? For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
Thus far, we have focused on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposiums and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.
Please note that the morning session of the first day is devoted to preparing the conversation with Claudia Rankine which will take place during the afternoon session and the second day.
Claudia Rankine will be joining the group at 2pm on Wednesday 24 September.
As usual, we intend to address all aspects of our guest’s work.
Please feel free to make suggestions as to particular books that you would like to discuss during the symposium.
Our Wednesday afternoon session with Claudia Rankine should end by 5 pm, which will leave ample time for everybody to get to the poetry reading.
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Please note that Claudia Rankine will also be giving a talk and reading at The American University of Paris on Tuesday 23 September at 6 pm. More information here.
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Claudia Rankine Bibliography
Books
- Nothing in Nature Is Private. Cleveland State University Poetry Center (1994)
- The End of the Alphabet. Grove Press (1998)
- Plot. Grove Press (2001)
- Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Graywolf Press (2004)
- Citizen: An American Lyric. Graywolf Press (2014)
- The White Card: A PlayGraywolf Press (2019)
- Just Us: An American Conversation. Graywolf Press (2020)
- Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric: 20th Anniversary Edition.Graywolf Press (2024)
Edited Anthologies & Essay Collections
- Rankine, C., & Spahr, J. (Eds.). (2002).American Women Poets in the Twenty‑First Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. Wesleyan University Press.
- Rankine, C., & Sewell, L. (Eds.). (2007).American Poets in the Twenty‑First Century: The New Poetics. Wesleyan University Press.
- Rankine, C., & Sewell, L. (Eds.). (2012).Eleven More American Women Poets in the Twenty‑First Century: Poetics Across North America. Wesleyan University Press.
- Rankine, C., & Loffreda, B. (Eds.). (2014).The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Fence Books.
- Rankine, C., & TRII Curatorial Board (Eds.). (2022).On Whiteness. Self Publish Be Happy Editions.
Plays & Performance Works
2009
- The provenance of beauty: A South Bronx travelogue[Performance piece]. Commissioned by the Foundry Theatre.
2010
- Llewellyn, C. (Co-author). (April).Existing conditions [Play, Act I]. Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
2018
- Carson, A. (Co-Librettist), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Co-creators), & Lang, D. (Composer). (October 3–8).The mile-long opera: A biography of 7 o’clock [Site-specific choral performance]. The High Line, New York, NY.
- Rawls, W. (Co-creator). (September).What remains [Performance]. Danspace Project, New York, NY.
2020
- (February 6).The white card [Play]. Penumbra Theatre, Minneapolis, MN. (Originally premiered at Arts Emerson and the American Repertory Theater, Boston, MA.)
2022
- (March). Magar, T. (Director).HELP [Play]. The Shed, New York, NY.
- (October 9–12). Sellars, P. (Director), & Sorey, T. (Composer).Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine Baker [Opera]. Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2023
- (February).Revolutionary hope: A conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin [Theatrical performance]. Performance Space New York.
Video Series & Multimedia Projects
- Rankine, C., & Lucas, J. (Producer).Situation One (and other “Situation” video essays).
Exhibitions
2018
- (July 20–August 26).Stamped [Installation]. Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY.
2020
- (February 8–May 31). Lucas, J. (Co-creator).Situations [Video exhibition]. The Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University.
2023
- PLOT: An Exhibition. Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2025
- (May 15 – July 27). For Reel, For Real: New Approaches to Autobiography [Exhibit]. DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
The research seminar “Textualités Numériques et Contemporaines” (Paris 8), the research project “Poets and Critics” (IUF/ Paris 8/ UPEM / Paris Diderot), Double Change and Michael Woolworth invite you to a seminar with Marjorie Welish (May 31 5:30-7:30) and a reading with Marcel Cohen and Marjorie Welish (May 31, 7:30) at Atelier Michael Woolworth:
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Born in London in 1944, Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer. He has exhibited widely and has work in the Tate collection, King’s College Archive, Living Museum Iceland, and Hereford Museum. He participated as poet, performer and installation artist with the English Fluxus group in the 1970s. He started professional work as a painter in 1978. After twenty years in lead and plastics industries he started teaching art, art history and poetry at Goldsmiths’ College in the eighties. He started work at Herefordshire College of Art & Design in 1989 and in 1998 became Head of Art at Roehampton University. In 2002 he was appointed as Professor of Poetry & Art and in 2005 became Head of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art. Last year saw a reprint of his volume PLACE and the publication of the collected Gravity as a consequence of shape, from Reality Street and a collection of essays, Imperfect Fit, published by University of Alabama.