Teacher Guide

Citizen: An American Lyric Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Consider pairing Citizen: An American Lyric with Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Consider reading other works by Claudia Rankine, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Consider reading other work by African-American female poets, including Yrsa Daley-Ward’s bone, Alexandra Elle’s Words of a Wanderer, Directed by Desire by June Jordan, and The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde.

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