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.