George Elliott Clarke

• Cinema
• Graphic Texts
• Indigenous Literature
• Jewish Studies
• Literary and Critical Theory
• Opera Libretti & Songwriting
• Political/Philosophical Texts
• Pop/Pulp Culture Works
• Romantic and Victorian Literature
• South Asian Literature in English

Biography

George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist and Afro-Metis community of Three Mile Plains, in 1960.  A graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.A., Hons.,1984), Dalhousie University (M.A., 1989), and Queen’s University (Ph.D., 1993), he is now the inaugural E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.  An Assistant Professor of English and Canadian Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, 1994-1999, Clarke also served as the Seagrams Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at McGill University, 1998-1999, and as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia (2002) and as a Visiting Scholar at Mount Allison University (2005), and as the 27th William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Harvard University (2013-14).  He has also worked as a researcher (Ontario Provincial Parliament, 1982-83), editor (Imprint, University of Waterloo, 1984-85, and The Rap, Halifax, NS, 1985-87), social worker (Black United Front of Nova Scotia, 1985-86), parliamentary aide (House of Commons, 1987-91), and newspaper columnist (The Daily News, Halifax, NS, 1988-89, and The Halifax Herald, Halifax, NS, 1992-2016).  He lives in Toronto, Ontario, but he also owns land in Nova Scotia.  His many honours include the Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement (1998), Governor-General’s Award for Poetry (2001), the National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001), the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize (2005), the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction (2006), the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (2009), appointment to the Order of Nova Scotia (2006), appointment to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer (2008), appointment as Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto (2012-15), appointment as Parliamentary [National] Poet Laureate (2016-17), appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2017), and the receipt of eight honorary doctorates.

Education

Queen's University, 1990-1993: Doctor of Philosophy degree in English.  Dissertation:  “The Similarity of Margins: A Comparative Study of the Development of English Canadian and African American Poetry and Poetics.”  Supervisor: John P. Matthews.

Dalhousie University, 1986-1989: Master of Arts degree in English.  Thesis:  “The Pantomime of Metaphor: Performance in the Collected Works of Michael Ondaatje.”  Supervisor: Patricia Monk.

University of Waterloo, 1979-1984: Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. 

Distinctions

7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, appointed by the Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada, 2016-17.

4th Poet Laureate of Toronto, appointed by City Council, 2012-15.

Advisory Board of the Institute of Canadian Studies, 2008-.

E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature, University of Toronto, 2003-.

($500,000 endowment provided by Dr. Sonia Labatt and Victoria University.)

Life Membership, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2024.

Named a “Most Notable” Alumnus of Dalhousie University (2024).

https://www.dal.ca/alumni/news-and-spotlights/notable-alumni.html#arts-and-media

The Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, 2022.

Excellence in the Arts Award, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, 2012.

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012.

Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Acadia University, 2012.

Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Windsor, 2010.

Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Royal Military College of Canada, 2009.

Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry, The US Review / Hopewell Publications, 2009.

Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, Saint Mary’s University, 2008.

William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations, Toronto City Council, 2008.

Appointment, Officer, Order of Canada, July 1, 2008.

Appointment, Honorary Fellow of the Haliburton Society, University of King’s College, 2008.

Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of Waterloo, 2006.

Appointment, Order of Nova Scotia, 2006.

Frontiera Poesis Premiul [“Poets Without Borders” Prize] Festivalului International “Poesis”—$1000 (Romanian Lei) and statuette—Poesis magazine—Satu Mare, Romania, 2006.

Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction—$1500, Atlantic [Canada] Book Awards, 2006.

University of Toronto Black Alumni Association Faculty Award, 2005.

Africa Renaissance Award, Planet Africa Television, Toronto, 2005.

Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of Alberta, 2005.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellow—$225,000, Trudeau Foundation, Montreal, 2005-08.

Undergraduate Teaching Award, Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students, University of Toronto, 2005.

Harbourfront Centre (Toronto) Fresh Ground Commission—$20,000, co-received with composer dd Jackson to compose the libretto and opera, Trudeau: Long March / Shining Path, 2005.

Lukwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize, University of Toronto Alumni Association, 2004.

Gold Award for Poetry—$1,500, National Magazine Foundation, 2002.

Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry—$15,000, Government of Canada, 2001.

Outstanding Writer Award, Black Film & Video Network, Toronto, 2000.

Arts Alumni Achievement Award, University of Waterloo, 1999.

Portia White Prize—$25,000, Nova Scotia Arts Council, 1998.

Bellagio Center Fellow—Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, 1998.

Arts Grant 'B' Award—$12,000, Canada Council for the Arts, 1997.

Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry, Ottawa Independent Writers, 1991.

Bliss Carman Poetry Award, Second Prize, The Banff Centre, School of Fine Arts, 1983.

First Prize, Adult Poetry, Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1981.

Publications

Scholarly  

Books 

Black History of Nova Scotia.  By Tony Colaiacovo.  Associate Editor:  George Elliott Clarke.  Halifax (NS): Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, 2024. Edited textbook.

Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon: The Autobiography of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy.  By Howard McCurdy.  Edited by George Elliott Clarke.  Halifax (NS): Nimbus Books, 2023.  Edited autobiography.

Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 2023. Essay collection.  

Ed., Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections.  Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2017.  Anthology.

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.  Reissue in “Canada 150 Collection” (as one of top 150 books in Canadian scholarship).  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.  [Available also as print-on-demand paperback.]

Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.  Computer Braille Edition.  Toronto: CNIB, 2003.  [12 volumes in Braille]

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Co-ed., Border Lines: Contemporary Poems in English. Toronto: Copp-Clark, 1995.  Anthology. Sound recording.  Read by Jacqui Bishop.  Vancouver, BC: B.C. College and Institute Book Services, 1998.  [12 sound cassettes  (16 hours)]

Ed., Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997.  Anthology.

Co-ed., Border Lines: Contemporary Poems in English. Toronto: Copp-Clark, 1995.  Anthology.  [Eds., J.A. Wainwright, Clarke, Ruth Grogan, Victor Li, Robert Ross, Ann Wallace]

Ed., Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing. 2 vols. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1991-1992.  Anthology.

Monograph

The Quest for a “National” Nationalism:  E.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, “Race” Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity. St. John’s (NL): Breakwater Books, 2021.

On Entering the Echo Chamber of Epic:  My “Canticles” vs Pound’s Cantos. [Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poets Lecture Series, Vancouver Island University, October 21, 2015]  Nanaimo: Vancouver Island University—Arbutus Editions, 2016.  

Treason of the Black Intellectuals? Working Paper of the Third Annual Seagram Lecture Presented on November 4, 1998. Montreal: McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 1999.

Eyeing the North Star: Perspectives of African-Canadian Literature. Ambassador's Lecture Series. [No. 19] Washington DC: Canadian Embassy/Ambassade du Canada, 1997.

Journal

Guest Editor. African American Review.  Special Issue on African Canadianité.  51.3 (Fall 2018).

Guest Editor. Kola. 20.2 (Fall 2008).

Guest Editor. Kola.  20.1 (Spring/Nisan 2008).  

Guest Editor. Kola.  21.1 (Spring/Nisan 2009).  

Guest Editor. The Dalhousie Review. Africadian Special Issue.  77.2 (Summer 1997).  [1999]

Articles

Refereed:

“On The Apparition of Beatrice Cenci in Mulholland Drive:  Why David Lynch Ponders the Renaissance Patron Saint of Romanticism, (Post-) Modernism, & Feminism.”  [Forthcoming from Fix Your Hearts or Die: Essays on David Lynch. Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press).]

What a (Non-) Difference a Half-Century Makes: Juxtaposing the African-Canadian Verse Anthologies of 1973 and 2022.”  The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism.  Eds.  Sneja Gunew, Nikos Papastergiadis, et al.  Surrey, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025.  [Forthcoming.]

“Coloured ‘Extras’ & Spotlit Whites:  Spectating ‘Race’ in Slings & Arrows.” [Forthcoming in vol., eds. Don Moore & Kailin Wright, University of Toronto Press.]

“Black Ice and Yellow Snow:  On Digging into Canuck Pulp Fiction.” University of Toronto Quarterly.  94.1 (February 2025): 49-79.

“Black Maritime—Africadian—Literature: An Introduction.” The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature.  Eds. Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders.  New York: Routledge, 2025.  97-114.

“African-Canadian Poetry in English, 1890-2000.”  The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature. Eds. Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders.  New York: Routledge, 2025.   230-247.

“Is ‘Historiographic Ethnofiction’ Perpetually Tripped Up By Facts? Spy Invisible Blackness in Ondaatje’s Slaughter; Audit Muted History in Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues.” Land Deep In Time: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction. Eds. Weronika Suchaka and Hartmut Lutz. Gottingen, Germany: Brill—Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Unipress, 2023.  293-306.

Full List can be found on George Elliott Clarke's website.

Non-Refereed:

“Michael Mirolla’s Alchemy:  Maternity, Mutability, Mortality, & Eternity.” Michael Mirolla: Essays on His Work. Ed. Bianca Lakoseljac. Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“Len Gasparini:  That Due South, Great North Beat.”  Len Gasparini: Essays on His Work.  Ed. J. R. “Tim” Struthers.  Guernica Editions.  [Forthcoming]

“Is ‘Historiographic Ethnofiction’ Perpetually Tripped Up By Facts? Spy Invisible Blackness in Ondaatje’s Slaughter; Audit Muted History in Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues.” Land Deep In Time: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction. Eds. Weronika Suchaka and Hartmut Lutz.  Gottingen, Germany: Brill—Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Unipress, 2023.  293-306. Reprint: Lovers and Thieves: Essays on Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“Regarding Keith Garebian.” Keith Garebian: Essays on His Work. Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“A Note—Imagining an Africa That Never Was:  The Anti-Racist / Anti-Imperialist Fantasy of Charles R. Saunders’ Imaro and Its Basis in the Africentric Occult.” Canadian Literature. 240. 2020. 97-105.

Full List can be found on George Elliott Clarke's website.

Reviews

Review of Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry. By Lorri Neilsen Glenn. University of Toronto Quarterly. 82:3 (2013): .

Review of Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840. By Frank Mackey. University of Toronto Quarterly. 81.3 (Summer 2012): 685-687.

“Collecting His Wits.” Review of Collected Works of George Grant, Volume 4, 1970-1988. By George Grant. Eds. Arthur Davis and Henry Roper. Canadian Literature. 208 (Spring 2011): 153-155.

“Fred Ho Plays Malcolm X.”  Review of Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader. Ed. Diane C. Fujino. Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation.  5.1 (2009).

Review of Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature. Eds. Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki. University of Toronto Quarterly. 78.1 (2009): 178-179.

Full List can be found on George Elliott Clarke's website.

Belles-Lettres / Journalism

Articles

On African-Canadian Literature and Culture:

“On Witnessing African (Canadian) Baptism.” Foreword. The Black Baptist Experience in Canada. Eds. Gordon L. Heath and Dudley A. Brown. Eugene (OR): Pickwick Publications, 2025.  ix-xi.

“New Directions for Canadian Studies.” Yale Journal of Canadian Studies. 1.1 (2023 [2024]): 103-106.

“16 Reasons Poetry Is Essential for Black Canadians.”  Curator: Nadia L. Hohn.  byblacks.com  Posted April 19, 2023.

Parks Canada: This Week in History, “Portia May White (1911-1968).”  [I did not author this article, but I was a consultant for its content.]

“The Afro-Metis are Black-and-Indigenous Canadians”  Beach Metro Community News. Vol. 51.  No. 22.  (Tuesday, February 7, 2023):  p. 6. 

Back cover blurb.  Street Level: A Search for Belonging. Photographs by David Ofori Zapparoli.  Toronto: [David Ofori Zapparoli], 2022.

Full Africadian Articles are listed on George Elliott Clarke's website.

On Miscellaneous Subjects:

Review of To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending. By. Ruth Rifka (Toronto: Resource Publications, 2024). Verse Afire.  2.2. (June 2025): 36-37.  

“Echoes of the Troubadour: A Review of In a Cage of Sunlight: The Works of Joseph Maviglia, Selected and New" Posted June 16, 2025.  accenti.ca

“Letter to the Editor.” bulletin. 72.2 (March-April 2025): 12.

Review. The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790. By Thomas Peace. The Nashwaak Review. 52/53.1 (Fall/Winter 2024/25): 102-106.

A Tombstone, Not a Foundation.”  Review of  The Blacks in Canada: A History. 3rd Edition. By Robin Winks. The Nashwaak Review. 52/53. 1 (Fall/Winter 2024/25): 114-116.

“George Elliott Clarke: ‘Jane Austen is deathless.’”  Unexpectedly Austen.  Eds. Liz Philosophos Cooper and Sarah Emsley.  Jane Austen Society of North America.  April 2025.

Full List can be found on George Elliott Clarke's website.

Poetry / Drama / Fiction / Creative Non-Fiction

Books

Canadar Kobi George Elliott Clarke Er Nirbachito Onudito Kobita. [Canadian Poet George Elliott Clarke: His Selected, Translated Poetry.]  Ed. & Trans. Farzana Naz Shampa.  Dhaka, Bangladesh: Srijon Publisher, 2025.  Poetry in Bangla translation.

Canticles III (MMXXIII). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2023.  Epic Poetry.

Where Beauty Survived:  A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2023.  Non-Fiction.

Canticles III (MMXXII). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2022.  Epic Poetry.

White. Kentville (NS): Gaspereau Press, 2021. Poetry.

J’Accuse…! (Poem Versus Silence). Toronto: Exile Editions, 2021. Second Printing: 2023. Poetry.

Where Beauty Survived:  An Africadian Memoir. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Non-Fiction.

Canticles II (MMXX). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2020. Epic Poetry.

Portia White:  A Portrait in Words. Halifax: Nimbus, 2019. Narrative Lyric Suite.

Canticles II (MMXIX). Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2019. Epic Poetry.

Full List can be found on George Elliott Clarke's website.

Limited Editions & Chapbooks

War Canticles.  Vallum Chapbook series No. 34.  Montreal: Vallum Society for Arts and  Letters Education, 2022. Poetry. 125 copies

“Justice Should Be a Home: A Poetic Echo of The [Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children / ] Restorative Inquiry.”  Commissioned by The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children / Restorative Inquiry.”  Completed June 9, 2019.  50 pp.  To be an Appendix to the Final Report of The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children / Restorative Inquiry to the Government of Nova Scotia.  [Embargoed]

Two Hogtown Poets: Psicogeografia. Breve Seleccion Poetica de George Elliott Clarke, Giovanna Riccio y Stephen Brown.  Trans. Ana Paula Austin Ferreira. Cuidad Mexico (MX): Libros del Marques, 2019. 50 copies.

At Ortona: An Oratorio. One poem plus French translation [A Ortona:  Un Oratorio] by Robert Paquin and an Italian translation [A Ortona:  Oratorio] by Riccardo Duranti.  Roma:  Embassy of Canada to Italy, Villa Grandi, Roma, Italia, 2018. 200 copies.

The Denouement of Poet Laureate George:  Writings of December 2017. Ottawa: Ottawa Antiquarian Bookfair, 28 October 2018. 120 copies.

Elegies: Literary and Political, 2016-2017. Ottawa: 37th Ottawa Antiquarian Bookfair, 22 October 2017. 150 copies.

To the Muse. [Includes 8 poems in Giulio Marra’s Italian translations: “Portenti,” “Dissertazione sul Mio Nome,” “Linguaggio,” “IV.ii,” “III.iv [Il Poeta e il Tempo],” “À Edgar Mittelhölzer,” “Autobiografia (II),” and “Testamento.”]  Presented in connection with “George Elliott Clarke:  una performance di poesia e musica, con [musicians] Gionni Di Clemente e Bruno Censori, presentazione di Marco Fazzini,” Bar Borsa / Panic Jazz Club, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy, September 23, 2012.  50 copies. 

Da Una Stanza. [Trans. Marco Fazzini.]  Vicenza, Italy: L’Officina arte contemporanea, September 23, 2012. 50 copies.

Da Una Stanza. [Trans. Marco Fazzini.]  Vicenza, Italy: L’Officina arte contemporanea in occasione della lettura al Teatro Comunale, 16 aprile 2012.  290 copies.

Selected Canticles.  Maxville, ON: above/ground press, 2012. 100 copies.

The Gospel of X. Vallum Chapbook series No. 9.  Montreal: Vallum Society for Arts and Letters Education, 2010. Poetry. 200 copies.

Africadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2001. Poetry. 400 copies.

Blue (II). Included in anthology, Running with Scissors: New Poetry by 19 Young Writers. Eds. Andy Brown & Meg Sircom. Montréal: Cumulus Press, 2001. Poetry.

Execution Poems. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2000. Poetry. 66 copies.

Gold Indigoes. Durham, NC: Carolina Wren Press, 2000. Poetry. 500 copies.

Provençal Songs [II]. Ottawa: above / ground press, 1997.  Poetry.  150 copies.

Provençal Songs. Ottawa:  Magnum Book Store, 1993.  Poetry.  30 copies.

Libretto

“Beatrice Chancy:  A Libretto in Four Acts.” When Words Sing: Seven Canadian Libretti.  Ed. Julie Salverson. Toronto:  Canada Playwrights Press, 2021.  25-62.

"Trudeau: Long March / Shining Path." Canadian Theatre Review. 128 (Fall 2006):  67-88.

"Beatrice Chancy: The Opera: A Libretto in Four Acts." Marigraph: Gauging the Tides of Drama from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island.  Ed. Bruce Barton. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2004.  272-88.

“Québécité: A Jazz Libretto.” Kola.  15.2 (Fall 2003): 6-49.

“Québécité: A Jazz Libretto in Three Cantos (Third Draft).” Testifyin’: Contemporary African-Canadian Drama, Vol. II.  Ed. Djanet Sears.  Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2003.  221-55.

“Québécité: A Libretto in Three Cantos (First Draft).” Canadian Theatre Review. 112 (Fall 2002): 27-45.

"Beatrice Chancy: A Libretto in Four Acts." Canadian Theatre Review.  96 (Fall 1998):  62-77.

Recording

Issuance of CD, Constitution, by The Afro-Métis Nation.  Featuring GEC, Karen Ashcroft, Shari Clarke, Sugar Plum Croxen, Gilbert Daye, Shelley Hamilton, Russ Kelley, John Somosi, Chris White, Ken Whiteley, and Brent Williams. Produced by Ken Whiteley and The Afro-Métis Nation.  18 tracks, incl. “O Canada” (Words: GEC), “Hymn to Portia White” (Words: GEC), “For the Murdered and the Missing” (Words: GEC), “Ain’t You Scared of the Sacred” (Words: GEC), and “Pass Me Not” (Words: GEC).

George Elliott Clarke Koiné Opera. Music by Bruno Censori.  Musicians: Gionni Di Clemente, Triot, Bruno Censori, Michele Gazich.  Tracks: “Portents,” “IV.ii (for Andrea Thompson),” Edgar Mittelholzer,” “The Assassination of Malcolm X,” “IX/XI,” “Bellagio (II),” “Hard Nails,” “Tomcat/Pussycat Blues,” “To the Muse,” “From a Room,” “Will.”  Vicenza: The Arts Box, 2017.

Whylah Falls. [Audio cassette of CBC Radio Play, Whylah Falls (1996)]. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions—BTC, 2002.

Whylah Falls.  [3 Audio cassettes; container includes Braille.]  Read by Robert Adams.  [Burnaby, BC]: Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia, 2002.

Lush Dreams, Blue Exile. [Audio cassette.]  Lawrencetown Beach, NS:  Pottersfield Press, 1994.  Poetry.  Music by Doug Barron and Lesley Choyce.

Link to GEC's performances and performance texts

Individual Poems, Stories, or Play Scenes (1990-) (2025)

“Josef Korzeniowski à Freetown, Sierra Leone (1890).” One poem.  Anglistica Pisana.  [Pisa, Italy]  Fall 2016.  [Forthcoming]

“The (Imagined) Testament of George Taylor, Late of St. Marys (ON).”  One poem. Celebrating the Black Family: Resistance, Agency, and Change. Eds. Michelle H.A. Bailey & Stanley Doyle-Wood.  [Forthcoming]

“Negro Inventory,” “Harlem Pamphlet (1943) by Langston Hughes,” “Inventario Negro,” and “Folleto de Harlem (1943) para Langston Hughes.”  Four poems (two in Mexican Spanish translation). Puntos de Ruta/Waypoints. Trans. & Ed. Colin Carberry.  [Forthcoming]

“‘Trancelating’ the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero): (XVII).” One poem. Prairie Fire. 2026.  [Forthcoming]

“The Last Love Song of Francis Chancy.” One poem. Fix Your Hearts or Die: Essays on David Lynch. Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press). [Forthcoming 2026]

“‘Trancelating’ the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero): (XXXII).” One poem. Literary Review of Canada. May 2025. p. 34. [Forthcoming]

Full List can be found on George Elliott Clarke's website.

Journal

Guest Editor. Dis(s)ent:  Speaking Truth Back to Power in our Post-Truth, Fake News Era. Eds. George Elliott Clarke & Sanita Fejzic. Ottawa: InWords Magazine and Press, 2018.

Anthology

Compiler. Love Lies Bleeding Anthology.  Comp. George Elliott Clarke.  Toronto:  The Ontario Poetry Society, 2021.