Recent Poems
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]
“À Tempio Malatestiano By W.E.B. Du Bois,” “Venezia Ancora (III),” and “About the Rubinstein Staccato Etude.” Three poems. The Malahat Review. [Forthcoming in #231—Summer 2025 or #232—Fall 2025]
“‘Trancelating’ the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero): XXVI & XLIX,” “For E.J.P.,” “Off the Pig!,” “Guilty Pleasure: On Re-Watching Goldfinger (1964),” and ‘The Call to Home.” Six poems. Beltway Special Issue. [Forthcoming]
“Verses Adapted from Sor Juana de la Cruz (#92: Arguye de inconsecuentes el gusto y la censura de los hombres.…),” “‘Trancelating’ the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero): XL,” and “A Coda to the Warren Commission Report.” Three Poems. White Wall Review. 54 (2025). [Forthcoming].
“The Testimony of Nanny-of-the-Maroons.” One poem. Transition. 137 (2024). [Forthcoming.]
“for guernica, spain, this love letter.” One poem. Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology. Eds. Emily Sharpe and Bart Vautour. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2025. [Forthcoming]
“Re: Henry Kissinger,” “Aggression!,” “Once the sun be done…,” “Verses Adapted from Sor Juana de la Cruz (#48: Respondiendo a un caballero del Peru…),” “Green Screen,” “‘Can’t’ Chant,” and “Venezia Acora (II).” Seven poems. African American Review. 57.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2024): 359-365.
“Observing the Torre de Belem.” One Poem. 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒛𝒉𝒐𝒖 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑬𝒙𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: "𝑵𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔: 𝑬𝒏𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍'𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑬𝒙𝒉𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚--𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅." Hangzhou Shopping Plaza, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, June 21, 2025.
“Verses Adapted from Sor Juana de la Cruz’s ‘258. Maitines de la Asuncion, Mexico, 1679….,’” “Observing the Torre de Belem,” and “On African Fashion Philosophy.” Three poems. Asemana Magazine. May 21, 2025.
https://open.substack.com/pub/asemanabooks/p/three-poems-by-george-elliott-clarke
“Verses Adapted from Sor Juana de la Cruz’s “322. Maitines de Santa Cantarina de Alejandria, Oaxaca, 1691….” One poem. Bookworm. #92. April 22, 2025.
“Le Bateau en état d'ébriété (1870). One poem. Accenti. Pub’d April 18, 2025.
https://accenti.ca/le-bateau-en-etat-debriete-1870/
“Looking at a Book Three Ways.” One poem. Selected for Chinese translation and advertising hoarding display at CITIC Books Group branch at Joy City Mall, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. [Of 14 international poets accorded this prestigious honour, GEC was given the most prestigious billing!] March 11, 2025.
“Ode Re: The Compelling Wind.” One poem. Selected for Chinese Translation and Chiffon Flag presentation via the Encyclopedic Poetry School at Shanghai Zhenru Uni-Park MAX, Shanghai, China, March 2025.
“Le Bateau en état d'ébriété (1870). One poem. A Literary Harvest: Canadian Writing About Wine and Other Libations. Eds.. Licia Canton, Giulia De Gaspari & Decio Cusmano. Montréal: Longbridge Books, 2025. 205-209.
“Looking at a Book Three Ways.” One poem. Selected for Chinese translation and Public Banner presentation as well as by video display via the CITIC Books Group at the Sanlituan international cultural centre of Beijing, People’s Republic of China. [Of 19 international poets invited to be considered for this prestigious honour, GEC was one of the top four candidates, and actually finished first!] Broadcast and posted on January 22, 2025.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/WN1yMG0xV1WoXqlU0feMzg
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“Paris Annapolis.” One poem. Verse Afire. 2.1 (January 2025): 20.
“Homage to Skip James,” “‘Brazen’ Daylight Shooting in Little Italy,” “Helsinki—I,” “Pace Barcelona,” “Profile of an Assassination,” “April 16, 1977 (Viewed from April 16, 2024),” and “May 19, 1979.” Seven poems. Maple Tree Literary Supplement #27. Winter 2025.
https://www.mtls.ca/issue27/george-elliott-clarke/
(2024)
“A Hymn for La Reine Noire, La Déesse du paradis” and “Can’t Chant.” Two poems. The Goblin Markets: 2024 Black Fruit Fellows Anthology. Ed. Alan Wright. Toronto: Black Fruits Press, 2024. 18-21.
“The ‘Brink’s Coup’ In Reverse.” One poem. Ellipse. 93 (2024). & “Le ‘coup de la Brink’s’ en marche arriere.” French translation by Robert Paquin. Ellipse. 93 (2024).
https://ellipsemagazine.com/index-93/
https://ellipsemagazine.com/portfolio-item/le-coup-de-la-brinks-en-marche-arriere/
“A Portrait of THE John Fraser.” One poem. Dalhousie Unversity Alumni News and Spotlights. Posted September 11, 2024.
https://www.dal.ca/alumni/news-and-spotlights/alumni-news/remembering-the-john-fraser-1928-2023-george-elliott-clarke.html?utm_source=Dalhousie+Office+of+Advancement&utm_campaign=2a6d905828-EMAIL_enews-sept24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3263912293-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
“Justice Must Be a Home!,” “No Follow-Up & No Follow-Through Blues,” “‘Trancelating’ the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero): XXXIV,” and “Irving Layton Drafts, ‘The Day Aviva Came to Paris.’” Four poems. Gravity of Desire: A Canadian Anthology of Verse. Ed. David Stones. Toronto: Beret Days Press, 2024. 42, 51, 112, 123.
“Calvin’s Inadvertent Call for Apartheid (1555).” One poem. Swaziland and Soweto Revisited. By Lewis J. Poteet. Rock’s Mills & Oakville (ON): Rock’s Mills Press, 2024. [9].
“Amsterdamned Torontonians.” One poem. Devour: Art and Lit. 19. (Summer 2024): 70.
https://issuu.com/richardgrove1/docs/devour_summer_issue_019_-_book_block_for_issuu
Three haiku. Three poems. Porch to Porch: A Maritime Haiku Anthology. Eds. Blanca Baquero & Carole Martignacco. Ottawa: Haiku Canada, 2024.
“Guilty Pleasure: Re-Watching You Only Live Twice (1967).” One poem. Verse Afire. 1.2 (June 2024): 26.
“A Waltz Through Vienna—August 1999,” “Respecting the Sugar Cane Fields of Mauritius,” “Chance Glance Poem,” “Opera: The Art of Loving,” “Marigolds,” and “La-di-dada.” Six poems. The Nashwaak Review. 50/51. 1 (Fall/Winter 2023/2024): 87-95.
(2023)
“A Portrait of Martin Kuester.” Prudent Crossings: From Milton’s Paradise to Canada’s Bush Gardens. Eds. Alessandra Boller, Sylvia Langwald, Anca-Raluca Radu, Waala Said, Kirsten Sandrock. Augsburg: Wissner-Verlag, 2023. 226-228.
“Elegy for Elizabeth Windsor (1922-2026).” Exile. 46.1 (2023): 24-31.
“November 22, 1963.” One poem. Bookworm, No. 18. Literary Review of Canada. November 21, 2023.
“V,” “XXXIV,” “LXIII,” “Trotsky in Halifax,” “Trotsky in Halifax (II),” On Writing J’Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence),” “Years After Stockholm,” and “A Amatoritsero Ede.” Seven poems. Maple Tree Literary Supplement. 26. Autumn 2023.
https://www.mtls.ca/issue26/george-elliott-clarke/
“The Pumpkin: An Anatomy,” “Meditation on April,” “Entering Janey’s Arcadia,” “At the Lighthouse,” “In the Wake of Sleep,” “O Bumblebee!,” and “XXIX.” Seven poems. The Antigonish Review. 52.212 (Winter 2023): 78-84.
“I have now seen” and “Quiet Blues.” Two poems. The Alchemy of Tears. Toronto: Beret Days Press, 2023. 113-115.
“Yukon / Utopia.” One poem. Verse Afire. June 2023. [n.p.]
“For the Africadian Empowerment Academy.” One poem. By Zoom. Africadian Empowerment Academy, East Preston (NS), March 25, 2023.
https://youtube.com/live/BNgPFr-WKG8?feature=share
“Elegy on J.F.K.” One poem.
https://richlerlibrary.ca/shelf-portraits/my-autobiography-is-just-a-bibliographical-appendix-to-my-fathers-library
“Elegy for Alexa Ann (Shaw) McDonough.” One poem. Recited by Hon. Mary Coyle. The Senate, Ottawa (ON), March 7, 2023. Debates of the Senate, 1st Session, 44th Parliament, Volume 153, Number 103, p. 3009.
https://youtu.be/VNGuVR6rluY
“XXXIV” [from J’Accuse…! (2021)]. Columba. 14. Winter 2023.
https://www.columbapoetry.com/clarkejaccuse.html
“African Heritage Month [including reference to Whylah Falls].” One poem. Recited by Hon. Mary Coyle. The Senate, Ottawa (ON), February 14, 2023. Debates of the Senate, 1st Session, 44th Parliament, Volume 153, Number 100, p. 2942.
“Observing the Torre de Belém .” One poem. The Tourism Office of Portugal in China. Trans. Yin Xiaoyuan.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Skz6Ct3nZEgFX7wUhNsMWw
“Respecting the Sugar Cane Fields of Mauritius.” One poem. The Tourism Office of Mauritius in China. Trans. Yin Xiaoyuan.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ADUoo3jwKRDGJ_54E6QR0Q
“Lessons from Queen’s University.” One poem. Kingston (ON) Tourism Office website. Trans. YIN Xiaoyuan.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3u-bc7kqnjHxAfAtba1MKg
“Elegy for Vivian White.” One poem. Verse Afire. January 2023. [n.p.]
(2022)
“After Reading Yin Xiaoyuan’s ‘Alternating Current.’” One poem. A Manor of Words: Poetry at the Manor 10th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Bruce Meyer. Windsor: Black Moss Press, 2022. 30-31.
“Isolation Rag.” One poem. Inside: Thoughts from a Pandemic. Ed. South Shore (Nova Scotia) Public Libraries. Lunenburg (NS): South Shore Public Libraries, 2022. 72-75.
“A Waltz Through Vienna—August 1999.” One poem. Austrian National Tourist Office, Beijing, China. Trans. Yin Xiaoyuan. Posted October 27, 2022.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jk42SgQY91UTPtvcOO5Ecw
“A Soldier’s Story.” One poem. Vallum. 19.2 (2022): 52-53.
“Au Tombeau de Keats—by Alexander Pushkin” and “Of Istanbul.” Two poems. Phantom Parade. Ed. Lynn Tait. Toronto: Beret Days Press, 2022. 72 & 133.
“À Amatoritsero Ede,” “The Calling,” and “After the Love at Victoria Street.” Three poems. HA & L: Hamilton Arts & Letters. Process [Issue]. October 2022. 15.2 (2022-23).
https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/hal_issue_fifteen-2/poetry-by-george-elliott-clarke-1.html
“The Pumpkin: An Autumnal Anatomy.” [南瓜：秋季解剖学] One poem. Trans. Yin Xiaoyuan. Shanghai Botanical Garden. 1.2 (Autumn 2022).
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NZlW9gcHwEHxnWSTD0YiIQ
“Elegy for Alexa Ann (Shaw) McDonough (1944-22),” “White Figure,” “Upon Hearing Giovanna Riccio’s ‘Daedalus’ Lament,” “Ode for a Visual Arts Laureate,” “11/17/70,” and “Weathering.” Six poems. Consonant Lights: An Anthology of Poems. Ed. Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews. Toronto: IOWI, 2022. 6-13.
“Are Poets Ever Legible or Legitimate?” One poem. In Macedonian Translation. By Daniela Andonovska. Contemporary Dialogues. X.10 (2022): 177.
https://www.kepenci.mk/za-denot-na-poezijata-stihovi-na-makedonski-od-site-meridijani/
“XXXI,” “XXXII,” “XXXIII,” “XXXIV,” “XXXV,” and “XXXVI.” Five poems (from J’Accuse…! [Poem Versus Silence]). Exile. 44.2. (2022): 27-34.
“Elegy for Alexa Ann (Shaw) McDonough (1944-2022)” and “For Heather Spears.” Two poems. KOLA. 34.1 (Spring 2022): 5-8.
“Jones/Baraka.” One poem. Canadian Literature. 247 (2022): 57.
“White Figure.” Verse Afire. June 2022. [n.p.]
“W.E.B. Du Bois Critiques Coleridge” and “À Mary Oliver.” Two poems. Prairie Fire. 43. 1 (April 2022): 20-23.
“Salute to Gloria Clarke Baylis.” One poem. Haliifax Public Library. March 2022.
https://youtu.be/i0rNqRdG8b8
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gloria-baylis
“On My Dark Hobby and Blackest Art,” “16 / 61,” and “The Poet.” Three poems. The Beltway Poetry Quarterly. 23.1. March 2022.
https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/george-elliott-clarke/
“A Gigabyte-Size Let-Down.” One poem. Africanthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets. Ed. A. Gregory Frankson. Gatineau: Renaissance Press, 2022. 183-184.
“Are Poets Ever Legible or Legitimate?” One poem. Verse Afire. January 2022. [n.p.]
(2021)
“The Founding of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: By Col. Charles Lawrence, Overseer,” “‘Sam Slick’ Contradicts Harriet Beecher Stowe,” “Papers of Edward Mitchell Bannister, Barbizonian,” “Bannister Reflects,” William Hall, V.C., Remembers,” “Chronicle of the Triumph of William Hall, V.C., at The Relief of Lucknow, India: By Sir Richard Burton,” “The True History of Jesse Williams.” Seven poems. Harriet's Legacies: Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada. Eds. Natalee Caple & Ronald Cummings. Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 80-103.
“Breathing,” “Against the Government of Nova Scotia,” and “Lawyer Johnston’s Defence.” Three poems. Another Plague Year Reader. Ed. Andrew Steeves. Kentville(NS): Gaspereau Press, 2021. 80-85.
“The Liberation of the Creole (1841),” “A French Slaveholder Revises the Revolution,” “Dessalines Comments on L’Ouverture’s End,” “Frederick Douglass Writes to President Lincoln,” “Aux Brésiliennes,” and “Isandlwana (II).” 6 poems. Maple Tree Literary Supplement. 25. Fall 2021. https://www.mtls.ca/issue25/george-elliott-clarke/
“Manifesto of the New Untouchables” and “Masquerade Sonnet.” Two poems. 2020: An Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Judith S. Bauer. Parrsboro (NS): Black Dog & One-Eyed Press, 2021. 85 & 149-151.
“Ezra Pound.” The Trinity Review. 133.2 (Spring 2021): 39.
“At Dover Beach.” One poem. The Beauty of Being Elsewhere: Poems of Journey and Sojourn. Ed. John B. Lee. N.p.: Hidden Brook Press, 2021. 44-45.
“Against the Government of Nova Scotia.” One poem. Love Lies Bleeding: A Canadian Poetry Anthology. Comp. George Elliott Clarke. Toronto: The Ontario Poetry Society, 2021. 58.
“Landing: A Love Story.” One poem. The LaHave Review. Fall 2021.
https://lahavereview.com
“Self-Composed,” “Au Tombeau de Keats,” “Translated from the Spanish,” “Exile,” “Ode to Machiavelli,” and “Experience 1: 1-9.” Six poems with Chinese translations. Mirrors and Windows: East-West Poems with Translations. Ed. & Trans. Anna Yin. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2021. 58-71.
“Weathering.” One poem. Poemdemic. Ed. Honey Novick. Toronto: The Secret Handshake Gallery, 2021. 49.
“Weathering.” One poem. [spaces] Literary Journal. 15 (2020/2021): 45.
“Self-Portrait (III)” and “Rime Mire.” Two poems. KOLA. 33.1 (Spring 2021): 63-64.
https://thekolamagazine.ca/2021/05/21/kola-32-2-33-1/
“Blank Sonnet.” One poem. Verse Afire. April 2021. [n.p.]
“On Basic Income.” One poem. The Case for Basic Income. By Jamie Swift & Elaine Power. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2021. xv-xvi.
“16 avril mcmlxxvii,” “The Poetics: Redux,” and “Athletic Aesthetic.” Three poems. Literature for the People. 2 (2021): 52-54.
“Inside the Nova Scotia Statistical Average,” “Rigid Truth,” and “Louiselle Bosse Morin.” Three poems. WordCity. April 2021. Issue 8.
https://miombopublishing.org/2021/04/12/wordcity-monthly-april-2021-issue8/
“Au Tombeau de Keats [1822].” One poem. The Celebration of Poetry 20th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. I.B. Iskov. Toronto: Beret Days Press, 2021. 50.
“Whitewash” and “Towards the Declension of ‘Unprecedented.’” Two poems. Vallum. 18.1 (2021). Electronic edition. xi-xxi.
“Cristoforo Colombus Witnesses.” One Poem. Poets’ Corner Reading Series. January 23, 2021.
https://poetscorner.ca/notices/this-weeks-one-minute-poem-george-elliott-clarke-readscristoforo-columbus-witnesses/
“The War Scroll—XII” and “Gospel of Peter—III.” Two poems. The Trinity Review. 132. (Spring 2020) [published January 2021]: 51-53.
https://issue.com/trinity.review/docs/spring-journal-single-page
“Self-Composed,” “Au Tombeau de Keats,” “Translated from the Spanish,” “Exile,” “Ode to Machiavelli,” and “Experience I: 1-9.” Six poems. Translated into Chinese by Anna Yin. Mirrors and Windsows: East West Poems with Translations. Ed. & Trans. Anna Yin. WePoetry. Vol. 28 (January 2021).
https://wepoetry.com/mirrors-and-windows-translated-poems-by-anna-yin/
“Chancy’s Menu.” One poem. Verse Afire. January 2021. [n.p.]
(2020)
“À St. Matthias.” One poem. ‘Membering Austin Clarke. Ed. Paul Barrett. Waterloo (ON): Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020. 189.
“Manifesto of the New Untouchables.” One poem. We are One: Poems from the Pandemic. Ed. George Melnyk. Calgary: Bayeux Arts, 2020. 70-73.
“Entitled.” One poem. Seven Chinese translations. Global Poets and Artists Monthly. October 2020.
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“Blank Sonnet” and “The Ballad of Othello Clemence.” Two poems translated into Bangla. Trans. Farzana Naz Shampa. Daily Jugantor. Bangladesh. October 2020.
“Esther VII.” One poem. Columba. Issue 5 (Fall 2020): October 14, 2020. https://www.columbapoetry.com/georgeelliottclarke.html
“Ain’t You Scared of the Sacred: A Spiritual.” One poem. Recited by Rhodnie Désir. “[In]verse.” Fall for Dance North. Published on website. October 5, 2020.
https://www.ffdnorth.com/program/poetry-project#tracks
“Walcott.” One poem. Literary Review of Canada. 28.8 (October 2020): 8.
“Mormon Speaks!,” “Right-O! Right On!,” “Death of a Woman by Train,” and “22 novembre 1963.” Four poems. Literature for the People. 1 (2020): 110-116.
“Self-Stampeded in Our Spring of Discontent.” One poem. Exile. 43.2 (2020): [Inside front cover].
“On Basic Income.” One poem. July 16, 2020. Basic Income Calgary and Ontario Basic Income.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ik=123f9dc991&view=pt&search=all&permthid=thread-f%3A1672391841022113048&simpl=msg-f%3A1672391841022113048
“Corinthians XIII,” “Surah Al-Mursalaat,” and “Matthew V.” Three poems. The White Wall Review. Published on-line June 29, 2020.
https://whitewallreview.com/surah-al-mursalaat-lxxvii-corinthians-xiii-and-matthew-v/
“Amherst African Methodist Episcopal Church.” One poem. Sunday Edition. CBC Radio. Sunday, June 14, 2020.
“Weathering.” One Poem. The National. CBC TV. May 11, 2020. [Cue to 42:33]
https://youtu.be/TLRTq-hYj40?t=2551
“Emmett Till (1941-1955): A Beginner’s ABC.” One poem. Freefall. XXX.1 (Spring 2020): 8-15.
“19 avril/Nisan MMXX.” One poem. Verse Afire. June 2020. [n.p.] [Retitled in “Green” as “19 avril/ Nisan MCMLXXXI.”]
2019
“Campbell Road Church.” One poem. In Whiteness Fractured. By Cynthia Levine-Rasky. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2013. [Forthcoming]
“The Killing.” One poem. Poetic Places Fredericton. St. Thomas University. Ed. Katlin Copeland. [Forthcoming]
“Samson II.” One poem. Canadian Literature. [Forthcoming]
“Ecclesiasticus XLIX,” “The Letter of Jeremiah,” and “Baraka I.” Three poems. Kola. 31.1 [Forthcoming]
“Josef Korzeniowski à Freetown, Sierra Leone (1890).” One poem. Anglistica Pisana. [Pisa, Italy] Fall 2016. [Forthcoming]
“I have now seen….” One poem. My Nova Scotia Home. Ed. Vernon Oickle. 2019. 8-10. [Forthcoming]
“Self-Composed,” “Au Tombeau de Keats,” “Translated from the Spanish,” “Exile,” “Ode to Machiavelli,” and “Experience I: 1-9.” Six poems. Translated into Chinese by Anna Yin. Mirrors and Windsows: East West Poems with Translations. Ed. & Trans. Anna Yin. [Forthcoming]
“Exodus XX (Gloss),” “Ruth II,” “Ruth III,” and “Ezra VI.” Four poems. Ottawater. 15 (January 2019): 17-20. http://www.ottawater.com/ottawater15.pdf
“Musing On the Apple Cider Doughnut.” Verse Afire, June 2019. [10].
“For Joan Jones, Sanctified and Righteous.” The Chronicle-Herald. [Halifax (NS)]. Monday, April 15, 2019. A6.
“Ecclesiastes III” and “Ecclesiastes XI.” Two poems. The Trinity Review. 131 (Spring 2019): 8-12.
“Alexandria Alight.” One poem. FYP News: The Poetry and Politics Issue. [University of King’s College, Halifax (NS)]. Spring 2019. 1-2.
“The Progress of Servitude,” “The True History of Jesse Williams,” and “À Rimini.” Three Poems. Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. Ron Riekki and Andrea Scarpino, eds. East Lansing (MI): Michigan State University Press, 2019. 90-98 & 267-272.
“Constitution Next.” One poem. “175: A birthday wish list for The Globe and Mail.” Globe and Mail. [Toronto, ON] Tuesday, March 5, 2019. A14.
“Moses” and “Song of Solomon—VII.” Two poems. Braided Way Magazine. February 5, 2019. [& Forthcoming] http://braidedway.org/moses/
“Song of Solomon III.” One poem. Grain. 46.2 (Winter 2019): 100.
“Job (Addendum),” “Judith XV,” “Esther XI,” and “Addendum to Solomon XIV.” Four poems. The Nashwaak Review. 40/41.1 (Fall/Winter 2018/19): 8-18.
“Wisdom of Solomon VI,” “VIII,” and “IX.” Three poems. The Pangolin Review. 8 (January 8 2019). https://thepangolinreview.wixsite.com/mypoetrysite/issue-8-jan-8-2019
“Elegy for Vivian White.” Verse Afire. January 2019. [n.p.]
2018
“At Ortona: An Oratorio.” One poem. The Globe and Mail. [Toronto (ON)] Thursday, December 27, 2018. A19. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-ortona-75-years-later-the-tragedy-of-canadas-little-stalingrad/
“King Bee Blues,” “Angel,” “Wisdom of Shelley,” “Blues for X,” and “Repulsion.” Five poems translated into Bangla. Farzana Naz, trans. Arts.bdnews24. November 2018.
“Lincoln Plans for Peace (Pace Appomattox).” One poem. Best Canadian Poetry [in English] 2018. Ed. Hoa Nguyen. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2018. 43-45.
“Ecclesiasticus IX,” “XLVI,” and “L.” Three poems. The Malahat Review. 204 (Autumn 2018): 84-89.
“An Armistice at Last?” One poem. Recited by Percy Hatfield, MPP, Leglislative Assembly of Ontario, on Monday, 19 November, 2018. Official Report of Debates (Hansard), No. 50 (1st Session, 42nd Parliament, Monday 19 November 2018): 2354.
“An Armistice At Last?” One poem. Recited by Michael Bawtree (Acting President, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion), during the Remembrance Day Service, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, November 11, 2018.
“II—Gospel of Peter,” “I—Book of Shehzade,” “II—Book of Shehzade,” “III—Book of Judas,” “VII—Book of Judas,” “XVI—Book of Judith,” and “I—Book of Esther.” Seven poems. 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. 40-57.
“The Book of Samson (Repressed Excerpt from Judges)” and “Judith IX.” Two poems. Poem: International English Language Quarterly. 6.3-4 (September-December 2018): 297-302.
“Ecclesiasticus III” and “VI.” Two poems. Vallum. 15.2 (2018): 23-24.
“Wisdom of Solomon XIX.” One poem. Poetry Daily. Wednesday, October 10, 2018. http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17815
“Wisdom of Solomon II,” “Wisdom of Solomon XIX,” and “Ecclesiasticus V.” Three poems. African American Review. 51.3 (Fall 2018): 233-236.
“Discourse on Pure Virtue.” One poem. Translated into Bangla by Farzana Naz. Arts.bdnews24. October 9, 2018. https://arts.bdnews24.com/?p=19731#more-19731
“Zanzibar: A Meditation on Slavery.” One poem, handwritten on Fairmont Hotel Chain stationery and mounted and framed, and also printed, for exhibit, “eRacism.” Curator: Paul Crawford. Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton (BC), July 6, 2018-September 16, 2018. http://pentictonartgallery.com/exhibitions/2018/7/6/eracism
“Green Light: A Chronicle of Sun.” One poem. Heartwood: Poems for the Love of Trees: A League of Canadian Poets Anthology. Ed. Lesley Strutt. Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 2018. 110-114.
“Up in Smoke.” One poem. “The Great Canadian Cannabis Poem Is Real, And It’s Spectacular. Ed. Kieran Delamont. Lift. Apr 20, 2018. https://lift.co/magazine/george-elliott-clarke-cannabis-poem
“The Story of Dalhousie; Or, The University as Insurgency.” One poem. Dalhousie University: A 200th Anniversary Portrait. Mona Holmland, curator. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2018. 8-21.
“On the Pro-Slavery (Canuck) Unconscious: A Sestina Denouncing Continued Oppression.” CBC Radio. Ideas. July 5, 2018. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/slavery-s-long-shadow-the-impact-of-200-years-enslavement-in-canada-1.4733595
“Snow-Job: Why is Black Slavery ‘Whited Out’ in Canadian History? An Incorrect Sestina.” CBC Radio. Ideas. June 28, 2018. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canada-s-slavery-secret-the-whitewashing-of-200-years-of-enslavement-1.4726313
“Ecclesiasticus XXII.” One poem. LRC: Literary Review of Canada. 26.5 (June 2018): 6.
“Elegy for Leonard Cohen.” One poem. 150+: Canada’s History in Poetry. Ed. Judy Gaudet. Charlottetown: Acorn Press, 2018. 253-254.
“Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France,” “Nu(is)ance,” “IV.iii,” and “Discourse on My Name.” Four poems with Brazilian Portuguese translations. Poesia Canadense Contemporânea e Multiculturalismo. Ed. Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): 7 Letras, 2018. 104-123.
“Judith I & II & III.” Three poems. The Dalhousie Review. 98.1 (Spring 2018): 75-86.
“From: Radiant, A novel-in-progress.” One short story. Release any words stuck inside of you: An untethered Collection of Shorts. Eds. Nicole Haldoupis and Geoff Pevlin. [Toronto, ON]: Applebeard Editions, 2018. 154-158.
“Living History.” One poem. Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada. Tessa McWatt, Rabinadrath Maharaj, and Dionne Brand. Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2018. 139-146.
“On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution: A Canticle.” One poem. Labour / Le Travail. 81 (Spring 2018 Printemps): 241-243.
“Enoch 4: 1-18,” “Enoch 7: 1-34,” “Samson IV,” and “David (Excerpt from II Samuel 11).” Four poems. Maple Tree Literary Supplement. 23 (April-July 2018). ISSN 1916-341X. http://www.mtls.ca/issue23/poetry-george-elliott-clarke/
“Wisdom of Solomon (IV).” One poem. The Trinity Review. Spring Journal (2018). 14-16.
“Ezra Pound @ Rimini, 1935” and “À Tempio Malatestiano (Rimini): By W.E.B. Du Bois.” Two poems. Comparative Literature for the New Century. Eds. Giulia de Gasperi and Joseph Pivato. Kingston (ON) & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. 138-146.
“Rollcall.” One poem. Printed in green and white—the colours of the Nigerian flag—by the Office of the President, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, February 2018.
“Elegy for Gord Downie.” One poem. Recited in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by Percy Hatfield, MPP, on March 8, 2018. Official Report of Debates (Hansard). 148. 2nd Session, 41st Parliament. 7709.
“Surveying Winnipeg.” One poem. Recited in the House of Commons by Robert-Falcon Ouellette, MP, on February 8, 2018. House of Commons Debates. 1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 148. 260 (Thursday, February 8, 2018): 16971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9H7noohMvU
February 8, 2018, Mr. Robert-Falcon Ouellette (Winnipeg Centre, Lib.) – Page 16971: http://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/House/421/Debates/260/HAN260-E.PDF and http://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/House/421/Debates/260/HAN260-F.PDF
“The Story of Dalhousie; Or, The University as Insurgency.” Our Third Century Starts With You: Dalhousie’s Bicentennial Launch. Halifax (NS): Dalhousie University, February 6, 2018. https://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history- tradition/bicentennial-poem.html
“Address to a Politico.” One poem. League of Canadian Poets website-published on January 23, 2018. http://poets.ca/burnsnight/
“Judas 1-10,” “The Book of Samson (Repressed Excerpt from Judges),” “Screed 2,” “Screed 3,” “On the Martyrdom of Malcolm X.” 5 poems. Canada-Cuba Literary Alliance Journal. 2018.