Claudia Rankine and Nathaniel Mackey to Receive the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
March 27, 2017
March 27, 2017
WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The Library of Congress issued the following news:
The Library of Congress will present the 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to Claudia Rankine, for her book "Citizen: An American Lyric," and to Nathaniel Mackey, for lifetime achievement.
Rankine and Mackey will receive the awards and read selections from their work at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the James Madis . . .
The Library of Congress will present the 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry to Claudia Rankine, for her book "Citizen: An American Lyric," and to Nathaniel Mackey, for lifetime achievement.
Rankine and Mackey will receive the awards and read selections from their work at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the James Madis . . .