Civil Service

Claire Schwartz is an American poet who earned her BA from Williams College in 2010 and her PhD in African American Studies, American Studies, and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies from Yale University.Williams Record, Poets.org. She is the author of Civil Service: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2022) and bound (Button Poetry, 2018), and recipient of the 2022 Whiting Award for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize; she serves as culture editor for Jewish Currents.Poets.org, Claire Schwartz website. Born around 1988, she remains active in contemporary poetry.Williams Record