George Elliott Clarke

I’m George Elliott Clarke: a poet first – all else second.

      By my roots – African-American, Indigenous, Nova Scotian/Africadian, Afro-Metis – I’m nourished, but not entangled; and I’m a citizen of the world, in imagination, if not in fact. I earn my daily bread as a professor and writer, but I’ve also worked as a library activities programmer; computerized traffic signals controller; parliamentary researcher; student newspaper editor; community newspaper editor; social worker; parliamentary aide; and, of course, as a professor, first at Duke University and now at the University of Toronto, but with guest gigs at McGill, UBC, and Harvard. As a scholar, I’ve pioneered the study of African-Canadian literature; as a writer, I’ve brought “Blackened English” to poetry, drama, and fiction. And I’ve coined the term, “Africadian.”

      Welcome to my site, my insights. I hope you’ll find it an incitement….