Reading George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)

George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian Poet, English Professor and E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature. In November 2012, Clarke became Toronto's fourth Poet Laureate and in January 2016, Canada's seventh Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Currently he is lecturing and researching at University of Toronto, Canada.

Clarke is serving as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate and his work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the Black Canadian communties of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as "Africadia".

This reading is organized by the Department of American Studies in cooperation with the Center for Inter-American Studies (CIAS) and the Austro-American Society for Styria (ÖAG) and sponsored by the City of Graz.

Information:

University of Graz
Department of American Studies
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