A decade (PLUS) in pictures:
Festivals, Murals, Ceremonies, 2009-2025
Yoon Choi preparing for performance in "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: The 14th Amendment," Redwood Theatre, Toronto (ON), Dec 2024. Photo: Choucri Paul Zemokhol.
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"Royal Tease": Photo by Giovanna Riccio. 2022.
Miriam Makeba, Burnley "Rocky" Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokeley Carmichael (Kwame Ture): 4 African Diasporic revolutionaries (Montreal, 1968). Rocky and Joan Jones were mentors to GEC.
Unveiling of Portia White plaque, designed by GEC, at Branksome Hall, Toronto, ON
Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: The 14th Amendment," Toronto (ON), December 7, 2024.
Poster for Tarragon Theatre Lecture in 2019; invited by Tarragon Theatre to give another lecture in May 2024, GEC was "cancelled" one week before due to slanders.
Poetry and Song at Aurora (ON) Public Library, with GEC, Gio Riccio, Sonical Bees, and Honey Novick: Jan 11, 2023.
Laurie, Linda, Karen, Sheila, & Giovanna @ Ken Whiteley's studio's backyard for Afro-Metis Nation "Anthem" recording sessions. July 2024, Toronto (ON).
Olympic Sprinter Harry Jerome, Vivian White, composer and social democrat Bill White, Rideau Hall, Ottawa (ON). Order of Canada ceremony. 1970.
Photo of G.E. Johnson (later 1950s).
GEC @ Shanghai, PRC. March 2025.
WIndsor Star headline, "North Is Freedom," is from GEC poem in Red (2011), used with permission for a photo exhibit of Underground Railroad descendants in Essex County (ON). Friday, Nov 22, 2024.
In Church Point, NS, August 2021, Gio Riccio photo'd GEC staging own lynching. This pic represents the cancellation--hysterical (in black comic fashion)-- that GEC began to suffer in Winter 2020. Read J'Accuse...! (Poem Versus Silence), Exile Editions, 2021, for the full story re: Neo-McCarthyite suppression of Free Speech.
GEC on TV in Beijing, PRC, January 2025.
Poster for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#16): Saltwater Spirituals and Uppity Blues (II)." Feb 8, 2025, Halifax (NS).
Part of the team recording "Anthem" in July 2024: Chris White, Sid Ameen, Gloria Maxx, Laurie & Karen Ashton, and Margaret Ameen. Toronto (ON).
"Colouring Books" ad for Blue, Black, red, Gold, and White, published in Walrus, Spring 2024.
Canadian Bengali Literature Festival, Toronto (ON), July 2024.
Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2025.
Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.)
Bookbinder: Don Taylor. Old French end-papers. 2025.
Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 19th-century French end-papers. 2024.
Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. Japanese end-papers. 2024.
Poster for GEC/Hollay Ghadery interview, 2025.
Gloria Maxx artwork celebrating contributors to the recording of the Afro-Metis Nation CD, "Anthem," summer 2024.
Gloria Maxx artwork celebrating contributors to the recording of the Afro-Metis Nation CD, "Anthem," summer 2024.
GEC-designed plaque and bios for MacEwen & Acorn.
Halifax Public Libraries bound volume of scores by Nevawn Patrick, commissioned by GEC and the HPL.
Gloria Maxx art celebrating GEC influence.
Celebrating the life of Marja Haapio (1941-2024): Pekka Hesanto & GEC @ Helsinki, Finland, October 2024.
6 Canticles Covers: Epic poetry published by Guernica Editions, 2016 & 2017, 2019 & 2020, 2022 & 2023.
Photo from "5 Poets #16"--Halifax Central Library--Feb 8, 2025, Halifax, NS: Hon. Mayann Francis, GEC, D.D. Jackson, Shanice Skinner, Dean Bowman. Snapped by Val-Lynn Patterson.
Flyer for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#13): Lives of Girls and Women. Sunday, July 28, 2024, Toronto, ON. Design: Gloria Maxx.
Poster for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#16): Saltwater Spirituals and Uppity Blues II. Saturday, February 8, 2025, Halifax, NS. Design: Halifax Public Libraries.
GEC reading from J'Accuse, Toronto, April 2024.
2nd Sunday Salon, March 24, 2024: A painting of participating poets by Katerina Fretwell. Commissioned by GEC.
Poet/Actor Walter Borden, Publisher/Poet Astrid Brunner, and GEC: Across four decades....
5 Poets Breaking Into Song #12 (Poster by Shirley Chen), 2024.
GEC at Government House, Halifax (NS), at Lt.-Gov. Command, to present four songs in honour of African Heritage Month, all composed by Nevan Patrick: Friday, February 9, 2024.
5 Poets Breaking Into Song #11 (Poster by Halifax Public Libraries).
SobazBenjamin, et al.: SB, GEC, Lindsay Ruck, Hon. Mayann Francis, Karen Hudson, Halifax (NS), Feb 2024.
Three composers and one poet: D.D. Jackson, Juliet Palmer, James Rolfe, GEC: Toronto, 23 Aug 23.
Rolfe Songs: Left to Right: singer Alex Samaras, GEC, composer James Rolfe, poet Anna Yin, poet A.F. Moritz, poet Banoo Zan, pianist Lara Dodds-Eden, singer Andrew Adridge, and recording engineer Steven Philcox.
Triune Summit Poster (2022).
It was GEC's idea to have "Poets' Row" created at the Library of Parliament to honour Canada's Poets Laureate. Here GEC stands beside his photo and poem--in 2023--representing his term as the 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016 & 2017).
Launch of J'Accuse...! (April 2022, Tranzac Club, Toronto).
Poets: Banoo Zan, Albert F. Moritz, Giovanna Riccio, Anna Yin, and Ayesha Chatterjee at launch of James Rolfe's CD, Wound Turned to Light: New Songs, at Heliconian Hall, Toronto (ON), October 2023. 16 of 19 tracks on Rolfe's CD are GEC-commissioned songs.
Poster for GEC presenting Jazz poetry at Pilot Tavern, Toronto (ON), Feb 1, 2025.
Poster for GEC talk on John Fraser's Violence in the Arts (1974) for Soluble Fish speaker series, Toronto (ON), April 28, 2025.
Sammy Jackson & Roberto Occhipinti performing as part of "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: The 14th Amendment," Redwood Theatre, Toronto (ON), December 2024. Photo by Choucri Zemokhol.
Raymond Souster plaque, designed by GEC, unveiled in 2015.
Bro Bill Clarke's 61st birthday salute to GEC!
Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: At 17 (Liberation Celebration)," Toronto (ON), May 8, 2025.
Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 PoetsBreaking Into Song: The 15th Round," Truro (NS), February 7, 2024.
Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (Lucky #13): Lives of Girls and Women," Toronto (ON), July 28, 2024.
Poster for Ho Chi Minh Commemoration for which GEC recited the revolutionary's poetry.
PEN/Nabokov Award for M. NourbeSe Philip, spearheaded by GEC. NYC, March 2020.
Brenda Clews's last "Minstrels and Bards" reading, ft. GEC & Giovanna Riccio, Jan 2025, Toronto (ON).
Ken Whiteley, producer, background, & Plums Croxen, foreground, "Anthem" recording sessions, for Afro-Metis Nation. Toronto (ON), July 2024.
Geraldine Johnson by Lara Martina.
Band of Brothers: GEC, Bill Clarke, Bryant Clarke. Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax (NS). August 2024.
GEC, Tammy Weiss, David Swartz @ Lisbon (PT), May 2023.
GEC fraternizing with dead artistes, San Michele, Venezia, Italia, May 2024.
GEC poem, "Looking at a Book Three Ways," on display in Beijing, PRC, January 2025.
GEC on guard at Ezra Pound's grave, ensuring that he remains mere remains. May 2024.
GEC poem, translated into Chinese and displayed in a mall in Beijing, PRC. February 2025.
Cover of Selected Poems by Canadian Poet George Elliott Clarke, selected and translated (into Bangla) by Farzana naz Shompa. Published in Dhakka, Bangladesh in February 2025.
Poster for Decolonizing through Literature conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax (NS), February 2025.
Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. Japanese end-papers. 2025.
Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2025.
Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2024.
Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2024.
Black Fruit Poetry Workshop, Toronto, May 2024. GEC was an instructor.
Communist Workers Poster, Montreal (QC), 2024 (photo by AMC).
Odysseys Home book display poster, Robarts Library, Toronto, 2023.
Africadian Empowerment Academy poster.
MRH & GEC @ Tavistock Hotel, London, UK, January 2012.
Marja Riitta Haapio--MRH--@ Helsinki, ca. 1972.
Celebrating the life of Marja Haapio (1941-2024): Tipsa & Pekka Hesanto, GEC, Liisa Lohtander, @ Helsinki, Finland, October 2024.
Three Toronto Poet Laureates: Lillian Allen (#7), GEC (#4), Albert Moritz (#6). Word On the Street, Toronto, September 2024.
GEC with group at Government House, Halifax (NS), after presenting four songs in honour of African Heritage Month, all composed by Nevan Patrick: Friday, February 9, 2024. The persons represented are, l-r, GEC, composer Patrick, Hon. Mayann Francis (former Lt.-Gov. of NS), Hon. Arthur LeBlanc (Lt.-Gov. of NS) and Mrs. Patsy LeBlanc, singer Linda Carvery, pianist Holly Arsenault, poet Sylvia Hamilton, poet Giovanna Riccio (GEC's companion), and a dignified gent....
Polish university poster, 2024.
Four heavyweights of Black Can Music: Shad Kabango, GEC, Lance Sampson ("Aquakultre"), D.D. Jackson: Halifax (NS) Central Library, on the occasion of "5 Poets Breaking Into Song, #11: Saltwater Spirituals and Uppity Blues," Sat'day, Feb 10, 2024.
Swankey, Rolfe, et al.: The principals behind "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#10)," December 2023.
5 Poets Breaking Into Song #10 (Poster by Shirley Chen).
Portuguese poet Nino Judice (1949-2024) and Canadian poets David Swartz and GEC, in Lisbon, in May 2023.
In September 2022, GEC asked chef Brandon Olsen to replicate the exact same menu for the "Brains Dinner" that Prez JFK and First Lady Jackie threw for Nobel Laureates and equivalent luminaries at The White House (April 29, 1962).
5 Poets Breaking Into Song #9 (Poster by Shirley Chen).
GEC with Prof. Gregg French and Dr. Brenda McCurdy--widow of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy, 1932-2018)--and others on the occasion of honouring Howard McCurdy's historic relationship to the University of Windsor where he was tenured as Canada's first Black professor.
GEC with the Hon. Greg Fergus, Speaker of the House of Commons, in his office, on the occasion of celebrating the publication of the autobiography of Dr. Howard D. McCurdy (1932-2018), Canada's first Black tenured professor and Canada's second Black Member of Parliament. GEC worked for McCurdy, on Parliament Hill, 1987-1991, and he edited McCurdy's book.
George receiving baptism in Halifax, NS on Easter Sunday, 2023.
5 Poets Breaking Into Song #7 (Poster by Shirley Chen).
GEC's 63rd Birthday, Halifax (NS), 2023.
George receiving baptism, by Lara Martina.
Wordsong (November 2022).
5 Poets Breaking Into Song #8 (Poster by Lara Martina).
Black Fruit Press Poetry Workshop Poster (2024).
Poet Katerina Fretwell executed this portrait of GEC entitled, Larger Than Life (2022). To my eye, my "dome" attains a Shakespearean likeness!
GEC and Giovanna Riccio arranged for Chef Brandon Olsen to recreate the White House "Brains Dinner" that JFK and Jackie hosted (April 29, 1962), featuring a French menu:
1) A fresh seafood fountain (lobster, crab, oysters, shrimp);
2) Salmon sorrel;
3) Filet de boeuf Wellington with Fonds d'artichauts favorite & Endive Meuniere;
4) Bombe Caribienne; &
5) Petits-fours assortis
Plus Champagne and other wines and Calvados! Our party of four found the supper to be a feast and utterly unforgettable. This delight unfurled on September 9, 2022--just over 60 years after the original! (BTW, on our plates, is the second course: Salmon sorrel!)
Poet John Wall Barger & GEC, Philly (PA), March 2023.
Portrait by Boyd Warren Chubbs.
GEC with Nigerian-Canadian poets Nduka Otiono And Ama Ede.
5 Poets Breaking into Song #1 (2021).
Poet, calligrapher, artist, composer, guitarist Boyd Warren Chubbs's portrait of Giovanna Riccio.
Aurelia Clarke modelling Afro-Metis sash designed by poet Troy B. Bailey, 2020.
Beside portrait by John Hartman at "Many Lives Mark This Place" exhibit, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario, 2020.
Gio & Geo @ NYC, PEN America, 2020.
Poster: 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #5 (by Shirley Chen).
Lara Martina holding The Motorcyclist in miniature.
Portrait by Abigail Elizabeth.
GECβs Canticles Ad in Walrus Magazine (2024).
Portrait by Lichuanlibuchuan.
The portrait to the left is the work of Lichuanlibuchuan, and is the first of a series of portraits of contemporary poets from the Beijing-based, Encyclopedia Poetry
School: Contemporary International Poets' Series. My interpretation of Lichuanlibuchuanβs art:
The majesty of these endlessly expansive depictions of beings, creatures, persons, faces, and things is that each subject is transported into a cosmos--a constellation--of associations, suggesting that the pictured entity is in fact mythological, a conjuration of the heavens and divinities, that the beheld is both atoms and galaxies, stardust incarnate, and a palimpsest of mysterious universes never to be comprehensively defined, explored, or known. The marvel--the magic--of these detonations of light--all these millionfold, minute suns and astonishing illuminations-- is that pointillist method manifests astral projection, really; while every iota of the drawn, the painted, the inked, is the gravid in motion, the engraved dancing, black-and-white gravitating toward a brilliant, spectacular, indivisible wholeness; while the flowing lines compose simultaneously the solid subject and then the spectral emanation hidden in the milky way--just as fate and purpose hover--invisible--amid astrological charts, merely to be guessed at until the foretold unfolds. Another way to picture this art-- this achievement--is that the microscope eyeing the beheld becomes instantaneously a telescope glimpsing the outer, celestial realm that is glimpsed only in dream, theology, philosophy, and poetry. Herein shadow illuminates light, luminaries are magnified, and the subject is born again--as so many innumerable and imponderable, stellar dots and dashes--DNA reproduced as Morse Code, the meaning of the entity both composed and dissipated in flashes of living light amid the opacity of time. If Einstein would do portraiture, it would look like these.
At Leamington, Ontario, 2020.
Attending PEN America program in NYC, March 2020, with Giovanna Riccio, whereat M. NourbeSe Philip received the Vladmir Nabokov Prize for which GEC was her nominator.
GEC at the PEN America Awards Ceremony. NYC, March 2, 2020. Photo taken by Noam Galai.
Poet Roy Wang, writer Alexis Okeowo, GEC, and PEN America Awards Manager Jane Marchant, in NYC, January 24, 2020.
GEC delivers the Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor in the Humanities Lecture at Victoria University, University of Toronto, February 5, 2020.
Artist Lara Martina's depiction of GEC crucified at onset of Cancellation Blacklisting Crisis (CBC), January 2020.
GEC with bassist Roberto Occhipinti, in a joint performance, Toronto, ON, December 2019.
Canticles II in Beijing, China, December 2019. (Photo by Yin Xiaoyuan.)
With Elizabeth Stacey, guide, US poet Robinson Jeffers's Tor House estate, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, August 2019.
Quote on Indigenous justice issues, as endorsed by Margot van Sluytman of the Forgiveness Project, July 2019.
With Sugar Plum Croxen, Russ Kelley, Shelley Hamilton, Karen Ashton, Chris White, Gilbert Daye, The Afro-Metis Nation, Toronto (ON), June 2019.
The Afro-Metis Nation: concert, June 8, 2019.
With Sugar Plum Croxen, Nicole Rea, and Shelley Hamilton, Polson Park School, Kingston, Ontario, February 2019.
GEC & Sugar Plum Croxen, 2019.
With Rosemary Sadlier, Toronto (ON), February 2019.
Afro-Metis Nation Documentary Crew, Halifax (NS), 2018.
African American Review Special Issue, advertisement (2018).
At Leamington, Ontario, on the beach, 2020.
At Archibald Lampman memorial, Morpeth, Ontario, 2020.
GEC at the PEN America Freedom of Speech Gala, NYC, January 24, 2020, with Jane Marchant, Roy Wang, et al. Photo taken by Aslan Chalom.
GEC at the PEN America Freedom of Speech Gala, NYC, January 24, 2020. Photo taken by Aslan Chalom.
GEC in NYC, celebrating Freedom of Speech, with PEN America, January 24, 2020.
Canticles I x 2 somewhere near Roma, Italia, January 2020. (Photo by Lara Martina.)
With rapper Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton), December 2019.
With poet Micheline Maylor, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2019.
GEC at John Cabot University, Roma, Italia, November 2019.
George in Meunster, SK, in summer 2019, with Benedictine Abbott Primate Gregory Polan in the field behind. Photo taken by Leah Callen.
A portrait by poster: Opening ceremony of Black History Month at McGill University, Montreal, 2019.
GEC with trophy from Encyclopedic Poetry School of Beijing, China.
Three African Ottawans: Jose Aggrey and poet Lola Amope with GEC, Ottawa Antiquarian Book Festival, 2018.
GEC at Ortona, Italy, November 11, 2018, to commemorate the sacrifice of Canadian troops in Fall 1943 to liberate the strategic port from Nazi control. (Photo by Paolo Caccione.)
GEC & Fawn White, Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona (IT), 2018
GEC with Fawn White, CM, at Canadian Cemetery at Ortona, Italia, 2018.
Teajai Travis reciting GEC poem in Windsor (ON) (2018)
Poem for Ramsden Park, Toronto, 2018.
With writer Daniel David Moses, 2018.
GEC & Gary Geddes: Anti-War Poets! January 2022.
Poem, "Rollcall," as reproduced by Grades 1 & 2 pupils at Polson Park School, Kingston, Ontario, 2018.
First publication of "Rollcall," with a real butterfly! 2017.
With Gary Ewer, conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, December 2017.
With Susan Odle, CKCU-FM, Ottawa (ON), 2017. Her music for "Everything Is Free" is pure beauty.
GEC in studio of CBC radio host, George Strombolopoulos (2017)
Giovanna Riccio @ Roma (IT) 2017.
Poetry reading with Giovanna Riccio and Slovenian Poets Miljana Cunta and Goran Kocijancic, 2017.
At the Order of Canada Garden Party, Rideau Hall, Ottawa, August 2017.
Winner of the 2017 Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing for Poetry, Rowda Mohamud, with GEC, a judge for the award. November 2017.
Gary Ewer of Symphony Nova Scotia with GEC (Dec 6, 2017).
Her Excellency Alexandra Bugailiskis, Canadian Ambassador to Italy, GEC, and poet Giovanna Riccio, at the Ambassadorial Residence, Roma, Italia, May 2017.
Canadian Poets in Conversation, Ottawa, ON, 2016.
GEC with two Parliamentary Speakers.
Workshop on Spazio at lβUniversitΓ della Calabria, May 2016
With Poets Laureate John B. Lee, Anna Yin, and Bruce Meyer, 2015.
Parliamentary Poet Laureate Announcement on the News! (2016).
βSeeing Beauty, at Woodbine.β Poem on a Construction Site, 2015.
Romantics: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Clarke. 2017.
Birth of the Afro-Metis Nation: Sugar Plums Croxen, GEC, Russ Kelley, Chris White, and Shelley Hamilton. Toronto, December 2017.
Poem at a U2 concert, 2017.
With Poet Laureate Jackie Kay at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2017.
GEC@Branksome Hall Toronto (2017)
Bruno Censori backing up Clarke at Poetry Vicenza performance, 2016.
At Flin Flon, Manitoba, 2017.
With Naomi Klein, Joseph Boyden, et al., at LEAP launch, Sept 2015.
GEC & Class at University of Salamanca, Spain.
Parliamentary Poet Laureate insignia (2016).
7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate Installation (2016): AMC, GEC, Julie Morin, Ama Ede.
Poetry in Transit, Toronto, Ontario, 2016.
GEC with calligrapher and architect H. Masud Taj, 2016.
Pictorialized: GEC slogan printed /imagined by Toronto youth (2015)
GECβs βPartial Transcript of the Berlin Conference (1884-1885)β, November 2015.
Scholars assembled for International Perspectives on African-Canadian Literature at Harvard University, May 2014.
Guy D'Andrea portrait of GEC (2014).
Director Juanita Peters, cast, and choir, for Georgeβs play, "Settling Africville," Dartmouth, NS (2014).
Four Laureates: Poster for an evening of poetry, 2014.
Words to live by. Graffiti in Cadiz, Spain, 2013.
Three Nova Scotian writers: Alastair MacLeod (Scottish), Simone Poirier-Bures (Acadian), and GEC (Afro-Metis/Africadian).
With journalist and publisher Tony Coliacovo, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2013.
Art inspired by GEC's Illicit Sonnets (2013), displayed in Windsor, Ontario, in October 2013.
In Cadiz, Spain, 2013.
MRH & GEC (Helsinki, 2012).
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott supping with GEC and friends, Edmonton (AB), Fall 2012
Near Bellagio, Italy, 2012.
Bard with infant Bacchus - 2010.
Poetry performance at Vincenza, Italy, 2012.
GEC at Cairo, Egypt, December 2010.
GEC & MRH @ Fran's (Toronto 2012).
Africadian History Notables: GEC, Skip States, Wanda Robson, Gordon Earle, Tony Colaicovo, Burnley "Rocky" Jones.
GEC in Malta, 2011.
AMC GEC & Her Excellency Rt, Hon. Michaelle Jean, Gov-Gen of Canada, October 2008, at The Citadel, QC (QC).
With Professors Ana Maria Fraile (University of Salamanca) and Fathi Darrag
(Ain Shams University, Cairo), at Harvard University (2014).
With poet Walter Borden, Hon, Mayann Francis (Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia), and Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard, at the Order of Nova Scotia ceremony, 2014.
Remembrance Day ceremony, Queen's Park, Toronto, 2014.
GEC: Three portraits (Art Gallery of Ontario) 2014.
Settling Africville poster, 2014.
At Keatsβ Tomb, in Rome, 2014.
Marco Cera's portrait of GEC (April 2014)
5 GEC-like "colouring books" found near Roma, Italia, March 2014. Photo taken by Lara Martina.
In Cadiz, Spain, 2013.
Art installation in Mexico City, featuring the title of one of Georgeβs poems.
GEC & MRH (Paris, 2013).
Pordenonne, Italy, Sept 2012: Poetry reading.
With educator Geraldine Browning, lawyer Burnley "Rocky" Jones, filmmaker Sylvia Hamilton, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2012.
GEC & Poet Paul Zemokhol (Toronto, 2012).
GEC with The Great Sphinx (Cairo 2010)
Poem on a Sculpture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2009.
GEC on a camel at Cairo, Egypt, December 2010.
Blank Sonnet: Calligraphy by Taj.
A first usage of "Africadian" in an NS Tourism brochure.
Self-Composed, with Anna Yin's translation.
Origins
My patrilineal Great Aunt and diva, Portia White (1911-68).
Portia White remembered by the CBC.
My Afro-Metis Great Uncle Charlie Croxen, Newport Station, NS (1953).
Geraldine Clarke & GEC High School graduation, Halifax, 1978.
Bill Clarke's font (circa 1969).
Moonscape. 1960. Painting by my father, William Clarke.
Uncle Rex Mendes & Aunt Joan Mendes, Halifax, NS, 2000s.
AMC drawing of her four grandparents: Louiselle and Henri Morin AND Bill and Geraldine Clarke.
Wedding of Geraldine Johnson & William Clarke.
Robert/Jean: Matrilineal grandparents: Robert Johnson & Jean (Croxen) Johnson, Newport Station (NS), 1968.
Uncle Sock Johnson, Wolfville, NS, 2012.
GEC, Bill Clarke, Bryant Clarke: Three Brothers.
Jean Croxen Johnson (1970s), Newport Station, NS.