George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke is a renowned poet and scholar. Of Afro-Métis and Africadian (African-Nova Scotian) heritage, Clarke teaches African-Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, a subject which he championed at Duke, McGill, and Harvard. Keen on biography, Clarke contributed to the interviews that inform Burnley "Rocky" Jones: Revolutionary (2015), penned a portrait-in-poetry of Portia White (2019), and published his own memoir, Where Beauty Survived (2021). He was Howard McCurdy's...See more

George Elliott Clarke is a renowned poet and scholar. Of Afro-Métis and Africadian (African-Nova Scotian) heritage, Clarke teaches African-Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, a subject which he championed at Duke, McGill, and Harvard. Keen on biography, Clarke contributed to the interviews that inform Burnley "Rocky" Jones: Revolutionary (2015), penned a portrait-in-poetry of Portia White (2019), and published his own memoir, Where Beauty Survived (2021). He was Howard McCurdy's House of Commons aide, 1987 - 1991. See less