William Bill Clarke, right, sometime in the late 1950s in the Maritimes.
Book Reviews
at The Halifax Herald (since June 1992)
Kavanagh captivates; Choyce delights (JANUARY 17, 2016)
Books offer gospel talk, victim's voice (JANUARY 3, 2016)
The passion of Rita Joe (DECEMBER 20, 2015)
Garebian's art forays hit-and-miss (NOVEMBER 22, 2015)
Two poets not afraid to say the necessary things (NOVEMBER 8, 2015)
Lista pretty grim; Jorgenson just pretty (OCTOBER 25, 2015)
Offering study in poetic opposites (OCTOBER 11, 2015)
Chinese-Canadian poets offer work that’s visionary, fierce (SEPTEMBER 27, 2015)
Zolf is daunting but rich; Meyer deals in passion (AUGUST 23, 2015)
Bowering’s poetic palette dazzles (AUGUST 9, 2015)
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.
https://byblacks.com/entertainment/books/item/3418-16-reasons-poetry-is-essential-for-black-canadians
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.] https://parks.canada.ca/culture/cseh-twih
“The Afro-Metis are Black-and-Indigenous Canadians” Beach Metro Community News. Vol. 51. No. 22. (Tuesday, February 7, 2023): p. 6.
https://beachmetro.com/2023/02/07/in-my-opinion-the-afro-metis-are-black-and-indigenous-canadians/
Back cover blurb. Street Level: A Search for Belonging. Photographs by David Ofori Zapparoli. Toronto: [David Ofori Zapparoli], 2022.
“The Historical Origins of Black Canadians” Beach Metro Community News. Vol. 50. No. 23. (Tuesday, February 22, 2022): p. 6.
“Why is Black History Month necessary?” Beach Metro Community News. Vol. 50. No. 22. (Tuesday, February 8, 2022): p. 6.