Twenty Summers is absolutely thrilled to have esteemed poet, essayist, professor, and cultural figure Claudia Rankine join us in a live, one-of-a-kind high tea Book Club around her latest, Just Us: An American Conversation. Make sure to buy your copy soon!

This is a private, intimate book club for those that have read Just Us. Contact Twenty Summers Executive Director Kristina Kearns for more information.

Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. She lives in California and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.