Books.
Incorrect Merciful Impulses
Coppper Canyon Press
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“A striking debut that delights with its sculpted lines, surprising insights, and clear-sighted observations about communication and isolation.”
—Washington Post
“Sensuously immediate but never populist, au courant but never tied to headlines, and trailing—with fearful eagerness—the spirit of Plath, Rankine's first full-length gathering sounds as if she knew that people were listening, and it has no trouble holding listeners fast.”
—Stephanie Burt, American Poets
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Slow Dance with Trip Wire (chapbook)
Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship winner
“In the hands of a fine poet like Camille Rankine, in Slow Dance with Trip Wire, the dance is oh so human, the music hard-won and bittersweet, the truths she uncovers about herself and us, graceful.
—Cornelius Eady, Judge
Poems Online.
Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day
prose.
“We tend to think of these words—imagination, empathy—as belonging unquestionably in the realm of the good. But imagination, for one, can be brutal.”
The Known Unknown: Persona, Empathy, & the Limits of Imagination, Harriet, The Poetry Foundaton
“When I say I want a poetry that's true, not merely factual, I suppose what I mean in part is that I'm looking for a poetry that sifts through our untruths, unwinding the narratives we've come to accept about where we live and who we are.”
Poetics of a Post-Fact Nation, Poetry & Democracy, Poetry Society of America
“I'm always taking notes. I pick up pieces from magazine articles, news stories, radio, television, movies, from conversations with strangers, from eavesdropping on the world. Then, in the quiet, I take stock.”
Writers Recommend, Poets & Writers
“Maybe diversity is the chair in the corner of a vast, white room, in which a small number of us are at times invited to sit. Maybe within that word is the presumption that the room is not ours and we're being let in.”
Equity in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing?, Roundtable, PEN America
“Our very idea of which work qualifies as good and worthy is influenced by our culture's notion of who is worthy, and who is worth listening to.”
What's in a Number, Medium for Nat. Brut
"Whether or not I choose to use my work to engage with my history, our history, with our present, our exploits, our misdeeds, that decision feels like a political one."
What We Write About When We Write About, Harriet, The Poetry Foundation
"After midnight, the city's striving starts to slow, the traffic ebbs, the buzz and the rush relent."
The Noise, The Night, Harriet, The Poetry Foundation
"Obviously, we're not in it for the money. We all know the work of poetry is worth much more than that."
Do What You Do, Love What You Love, Harriet, The Poetry Foundation
"I'm more comfortable with poetry being a landscape of shifting sand than a cement lot. I love the possibility and the multiplicity in that."
On My Metatextual Uncertainty, Harriet, The Poetry Foundation
