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David Renton's student theatre company, Mind the Flowerpots, age 14, Halifax, NS, Fall 1974. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526519391163-OR2TU1R0WASS9BDNVQ5Y/_X8A5023.jpg George Elliott Clarke With filmmakers Leslie Schachter & David Richler, Rideau Hall, Aug 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526339057791-E5NLF2GARYRASR14RNO5/Gouverneure+ge%CC%81ne%CC%81rale.jpg George Elliott Clarke With daughter AMC and Her Excellency Michaelle Jean, Governor-General of Canada, at Order of Canada appointment ceremony, Ville de Quebec (QC), October 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/ac24f248-2787-4eb5-9d5d-8f67d6692013/J%27Accuse+Walrus+ad.png George Elliott Clarke - Make it stand out This ad for J'Accuse...! (Poem Versus Silence) appeared in The Walrus and in Maple Tree Literary Supplement in Autumn 2022. For the record, I see no difference between Kancel Kultur Klanners and other sponsors of anti-intellectual tyranny. True liberal/democrats had better wake up to this new "trahison des clercs" (to cite Julien Benda's own version of Emile Zola's "J'Accuse...!"). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526339346329-9JYF2DCKE51IY0FF3WN0/Toronto+7.6+-+19.6.2012+002.JPG George Elliott Clarke With poet Paul Zemokhol, Toronto (ON), June 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526519242539-71IUMFR3ID9R8Y7GQUTY/FullSizeRender%289%29.jpg George Elliott Clarke Toronto bus shelter poster, summer 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526519307696-SBHOYG2G6JZKIGNC86U5/04.JPG George Elliott Clarke With poets Giovanna Riccio and bill bissett, Toronto, Dec 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526339476297-ECO1GRFDCM6MQKW071C4/WEB-walcott20rv_1018361cl-4.jpg George Elliott Clarke Clarke, aged 50, with Nobel Laureate Sir Derek Walcott, Victoria, BC, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526339137768-2T9RPE0J5PE7WNK4UCQ9/image-asset.jpeg George Elliott Clarke With poet Giovanna Riccio, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy, June 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526338425452-NI5JXSH4MXE05P76EOC9/2017-05-08+17.46.18.jpg George Elliott Clarke Clarke, aged 17, with brother, Bryant, Lawrencetown Beach, NS, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526338501763-9L2KRB1WLT1OJZX4CT9G/image-asset.jpeg George Elliott Clarke Clarke, aged 20, at Three Mile Plains, NS, 1980. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526338796002-OKLG0HJGRLTDTFXUE9RB/DSCF1500.JPG George Elliott Clarke Drawing of Clarke, age 5.5, by his father, Bill Clarke, October 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526338867756-S6VYU4ASJC8GIFIOLYKA/Clarke+%2810%29.JPG George Elliott Clarke With daughter AMC, her mom JM, and poet Ama Ede, at Parliamentary Poet Laureate official reception, Ottawa (ON), February 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1526339221382-U43QJR01P7NESX2GQM0R/Pariisi+29.1.+-+2.2.2013+005.JPG George Elliott Clarke Testifyin', Paris (FR) January 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1527529647174-ZPP4WHZ2O1R1T7I2701R/Image021_22.jpg George Elliott Clarke In St. Petersburg (Russia), Summer 2007. https://www.georgeelliottclarke.net/poems-since-2018 daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://www.georgeelliottclarke.net/events daily 0.75 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/01f661a5-ed1a-4a9f-b84d-e57d01eb983f/GECNov11Toronto2014.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC & Fawn White, Canadian War Cemetery, Ortona (IT), 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/16c1f631-1ffa-4d05-bd81-d88d4a649e6f/ZanMoritzRiccioYinChatterjee2023.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/b7223ffb-4836-433a-ae38-f32bf5ae2b1f/6+Canticles+Covers.jpg Events - Make it stand out 6 Canticles Covers: Epic poetry published by Guernica Editions, 2016 & 2017, 2019 & 2020, 2022 & 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/55a03dff-f121-4e03-a575-dd7436cc0593/Poetry+%26+Song+-+Borealis+back+page+-+8.5x11.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poetry and Song at Aurora (ON) Public Library, with GEC, Gio Riccio, Sonical Bees, and Honey Novick: Jan 11, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/67721995-ea6d-4ff6-b2d5-7b27a6f6aa40/BoundScores7.jpg Events - Make it stand out Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558379827127-Q3IR8I109SNWL2T678G8/Harvard+International+Perspectives.jpg Events Scholars assembled for International Perspectives on African-Canadian Literature at Harvard University, May 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/83948a27-7f13-4191-883f-caae616c42ea/GECThreePortraits2014.JPG Events - Make it stand out GEC: Three portraits (Art Gallery of Ontario) 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/f2c75ac2-936f-4004-a54c-2e8413d4eaf7/3.png Events - Make it stand out GEC & Gary Geddes: Anti-War Poets! January 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/632ed06a-b5eb-4e8e-8b04-ffe5f6800747/GECShanghaiPRC.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC @ Shanghai, PRC. March 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/fee0e273-f9be-4893-80ea-1b73cde5ffed/Chubbs+Riccio.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poet, calligrapher, artist, composer, guitarist Boyd Warren Chubbs's portrait of Giovanna Riccio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558386528912-VD9TR848H34U8CUS9EDZ/FullSizeRender%285%29+%281%29.jpg Events Poem at a U2 concert, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1606597191860-KMT48WBGSGE6DCAE3F5B/IMG_2080.jpg Events At Leamington, Ontario, on the beach, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/0b560381-a1f4-472e-8859-53eae8487862/GECGovHouseHfxFeb9%2C2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9d4e0cb9-abb7-452e-980e-307acd5941d7/LaraMartinawithTheMotorcyclist.png Events - Make it stand out Lara Martina holding The Motorcyclist in miniature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/23033f81-d8be-4921-b858-dd76a50ec8ca/AMCLouiselleHenriGerryBill--4parents.jpg Events - Make it stand out AMC drawing of her four grandparents: Louiselle and Henri Morin AND Bill and Geraldine Clarke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1586015820293-YRFR5A8KVR1A1SQBDIWY/IMG_4065.JPG Events 5 GEC-like "colouring books" found near Roma, Italia, March 2014. Photo taken by Lara Martina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/eeba7d29-96ec-4dc2-b005-42b0f9fe8abe/wyk%C5%82ady+kanadyjskie_plakat+A2_EN.jpg Events - Make it stand out Polish university poster, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1608677659937-TE4JVVSLZU95RRSBD8IY/IMG_0836.JPG Events Romantics: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Clarke. 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558379443757-LAR6R9K1NON78MQ6HNMI/CanRoots+Consortium+2.jpg Events Birth of the Afro-Metis Nation: Sugar Plums Croxen, GEC, Russ Kelley, Chris White, and Shelley Hamilton. Toronto, December 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602981350324-5AHE63POXNTGGYNDSWSA/Bellagio+12.--15.4.2012+022.JPG Events Near Bellagio, Italy, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1606597112243-VKTANK5M2EQPYNOSMJQI/IMG_2125.jpg Events At Leamington, Ontario, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602981268795-XV93UH8RWYLGTPX8ZT96/Cadiz+6.+-+13-12-2013+017.JPG Events In Cadiz, Spain, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/fdfdf70a-0b2f-4114-8ecd-6ae8ed91ffe1/GECLynched.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/fa5ea362-96db-45d3-b728-5299d32d0cb9/Poster--5+Poets+%2313.png Events - Make it stand out Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (Lucky #13): Lives of Girls and Women," Toronto (ON), July 28, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558383321327-Z9KSR6ZY9O72JMGCLDUY/20181028_152945.jpg Events Three African Ottawans: Jose Aggrey and poet Lola Amope with GEC, Ottawa Antiquarian Book Festival, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/77f1d22f-4c38-4e57-b486-14bcae057099/ColouringBookWalrusAd.jpg Events - Make it stand out "Colouring Books" ad for Blue, Black, red, Gold, and White, published in Walrus, Spring 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1abe85b0-ae15-4b0e-8f87-dca24bafc1f3/BoundScores8.jpg Events - Make it stand out Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. Old French end-papers. 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/83744353-9aa9-47be-a6f8-b1bdfa51f11a/Africana+Canadiana+poster.jpg Events - Make it stand out Odysseys Home book display poster, Robarts Library, Toronto, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/bd02981b-111d-41c2-a620-4b754b0a1c68/Puumala+4.-11.8.2012+002.JPG Events - Make it stand out MRH & GEC (Helsinki, 2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045206063-FX9S4Z5VX6D6208K8S6D/Image-1+%281%29.png Events With Gary Ewer, conductor of Symphony Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, December 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/09696197-4105-47e3-bd42-8d03338a8a70/5+Poets+9A.png Events - Make it stand out 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #9 (Poster by Shirley Chen). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045277214-BMZNB3Y7G6XEWHYNHACZ/image1.png Events With Sugar Plum Croxen, Russ Kelley, Shelley Hamilton, Karen Ashton, Chris White, Gilbert Daye, The Afro-Metis Nation, Toronto (ON), June 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9db190c5-3121-4cc9-804a-86df79a74b05/TruineSummit_March2022.jpg Events - Make it stand out Triune Summit Poster (2022). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558379129901-VB0EOI5NONEKUKR0EA15/20170814_211235.jpg Events With Poet Laureate Jackie Kay at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/2dc2c182-8228-4c51-8266-e977dd6b59ce/GECPoetsRowbyPatriciaRocheleau.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1e8c4ce9-d45a-445e-b711-a0bf2fc2b1e9/BoundScores5.jpg Events - Make it stand out Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 19th-century French end-papers. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1243635c-ae9f-4ab3-9856-c36552102b6c/GR+GEC+NYC.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/4c7ec7fc-e66c-4ab7-b7c4-5805367dab11/CdnBengaliLitFest2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out Canadian Bengali Literature Festival, Toronto (ON), July 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/c28b9f36-3eaa-473d-9d8b-5cbe978ff062/Baby+Cerberus.png Events - Make it stand out Poster for GEC/Hollay Ghadery interview, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e5c27f6e-293d-40cc-922d-57e0f0904fb6/ShadKabangoGECLanceSampsonDDJackson.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1d532af6-f9bc-46ba-a625-e0b74b77ab16/rocky+jones+and+stokley+carmichael.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/d7111d86-7acd-4b6c-b22f-98324bfc1e48/Gouverneure+ge%CC%81ne%CC%81rale.jpg Events - Make it stand out AMC GEC & Her Excellency Rt, Hon. Michaelle Jean, Gov-Gen of Canada, October 2008, at The Citadel, QC (QC). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/24102dc1-7b56-40ce-9cab-854b0ecb8ee4/20250414_141616.jpg Events - Make it stand out Halifax Public Libraries bound volume of scores by Nevawn Patrick, commissioned by GEC and the HPL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/622cb955-bd80-4a4c-9c9e-2392ea056647/GECTammyWeisDavidSwartzLisbonMay2023.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC, Tammy Weiss, David Swartz @ Lisbon (PT), May 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a4c87989-496f-4cef-a362-04f244f74a47/Anthem+CD+cover+large+final.jpg Events - Make it stand out Gloria Maxx artwork celebrating contributors to the recording of the Afro-Metis Nation CD, "Anthem," summer 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a833b33d-4e6c-4b5d-a20d-5450ed98008b/Poster5+Poets+%2312.png Events - Make it stand out 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #12 (Poster by Shirley Chen), 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558381674528-H7O2Z3L2WNC5KA1T04YL/Poet+Laureates+Poster4+%281%29.jpg Events Four Laureates: Poster for an evening of poetry, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9cd5ac11-91fb-481c-a22e-fd43634001b8/MRHLondon6.JPG Events - Make it stand out MRH & GEC @ Tavistock Hotel, London, UK, January 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/7986efee-0da1-4a5a-8811-e9073a01b84c/GECCrucifixLaraMartina.jpg Events - Make it stand out Artist Lara Martina's depiction of GEC crucified at onset of Cancellation Blacklisting Crisis (CBC), January 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/14865a3d-5930-426b-b62d-f3a3e6f2098c/PW+Plaque+unveiling.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Unveiling of Portia White plaque, designed by GEC, at Branksome Hall, Toronto, ON https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/fd8b0684-5c11-4cfe-8b08-535e82914a54/Pariisi+17.-20.8.13+005.JPG Events - Make it stand out GEC & MRH (Paris, 2013). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1581385691203-WMKTMM44NOZ3RPEGMIQN/image%2B%25281%2529.jpg Events Poet Roy Wang, writer Alexis Okeowo, GEC, and PEN America Awards Manager Jane Marchant, in NYC, January 24, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/922fc235-ef8f-4752-9fb3-14d3140a89d1/IMGP0700.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poetry performance at Vincenza, Italy, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/8474aa9e-0d19-41a6-b50a-925cc90dc117/SolubleFish.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Poster for GEC talk on John Fraser's Violence in the Arts (1974) for Soluble Fish speaker series, Toronto (ON), April 28, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/3985f510-9543-4e80-8323-f94892080484/GECBaptismEasterMMXXIII.jpeg Events - Make it stand out George receiving baptism in Halifax, NS on Easter Sunday, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578346028987-R8FYKRZZZEFKF3FZEL24/Screen+Shot+2020-01-06+at+4.26.43+PM.png Events The Afro-Metis Nation: concert, June 8, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/908e9fbb-a6d7-4879-8ec8-4ce8ecf62e37/GECbyEthanNeville.JPG Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578628001833-M3XBVEAWB9C8N6RQ3NPA/Apoligies+are+Not+Enough.jpg Events Quote on Indigenous justice issues, as endorsed by Margot van Sluytman of the Forgiveness Project, July 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/63cb67bd-d118-485a-9847-58d36ee7b84d/Decolonizing+through+literature.png Events - Make it stand out Poster for Decolonizing through Literature conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax (NS), February 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a213c3f8-1f8e-4936-b79f-7827062ffd01/5+Poets+%2310+Poster+with+the+QRcode+.png Events - Make it stand out 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #10 (Poster by Shirley Chen). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e7edbb40-a529-4c6f-bd48-a27f4e5f4eb4/George%2C+Nduka%2C+Ama.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC with Nigerian-Canadian poets Nduka Otiono And Ama Ede. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/faffcbfc-ba78-46db-bda1-0ae83a632da8/Guy+D_Andrea_Portrait_SAM_4124.jpg Events - Make it stand out Guy D'Andrea portrait of GEC (2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558385565710-ERWI5YMY9GVSPXOTKCB2/Cadiz%2B6.%2B-%2B13-12-2013%2B023.jpg Events Words to live by. Graffiti in Cadiz, Spain, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045965207-GB5JASPRF7PZ3PWSJ3QT/image-asset.png Events Settling Africville poster, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/afeffe0f-1b3c-4e75-bbb5-42cf5a13b652/poster--5+Poets%2317.png Events - Make it stand out Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: At 17 (Liberation Celebration)," Toronto (ON), May 8, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578628184123-RR23XK0NPUCSPO1MPK3X/image-asset.jpeg Events Canticles II in Beijing, China, December 2019. (Photo by Yin Xiaoyuan.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/6f089712-9322-4f8c-b7fb-6047e2dc0f7f/Brains+Dinner+9+9+22.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578867239985-AALUFW71UOB9J3836NUR/IMG_0849.JPG Events Her Excellency Alexandra Bugailiskis, Canadian Ambassador to Italy, GEC, and poet Giovanna Riccio, at the Ambassadorial Residence, Roma, Italia, May 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/54d94524-8405-4290-b4b5-e0a0b11f19d0/3+GEC+JAccuse+DSC01589.jpeg Events - Make it stand out GEC reading from J'Accuse, Toronto, April 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045393582-CEYZ7T4X5J8L7TYX48CU/IMG_0208.JPG Events At Flin Flon, Manitoba, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/beec5f4c-82d2-43c4-8c2b-c014ce0aea44/thumbnail_RolfeSongsPerformedAug18th2022.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/8c568338-597d-4758-9d5f-67f57dde6c20/KenWhiteleyPlumsCroxenAnthem.jpg Events - Make it stand out Ken Whiteley, producer, background, & Plums Croxen, foreground, "Anthem" recording sessions, for Afro-Metis Nation. Toronto (ON), July 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/50fcd595-6eee-434b-8f02-f0c4dde20e63/2nd+Sunday+Salon%2C+March+24%2C+2024%3A+A+painting+of+participating+poets+by+Katerina+Fretwell.%C2%A0+Commissioned+by+GEC. Events - Make it stand out 2nd Sunday Salon, March 24, 2024: A painting of participating poets by Katerina Fretwell. Commissioned by GEC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/390503d7-cbdc-49fe-8fbe-3f100d1df638/GECPoundBrodsky.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC fraternizing with dead artistes, San Michele, Venezia, Italia, May 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a27dd71c-30ab-4e83-86fe-2b54fc856ae7/20250318_112102.jpg Events - Make it stand out Gloria Maxx art celebrating GEC influence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1580061399616-TBYZGCFE4NCY4SUEZB35/IMG_1330.jpg Events GEC in NYC, celebrating Freedom of Speech, with PEN America, January 24, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602982458968-J1O0UJO1CMTDSYR2ONWP/IMG_1990.jpg Events Beside portrait by John Hartman at "Many Lives Mark This Place" exhibit, McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/aa5e938a-c4c5-4cf4-809e-ee95d3d12b58/WalcottGECetal.JPG Events - Make it stand out Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott supping with GEC and friends, Edmonton (AB), Fall 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/153e8335-7f81-4042-bb74-628f214d28f9/George%2C+Bill%2C+Bryant%2C+1960%2C+62%2C+61.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC, Bill Clarke, Bryant Clarke: Three Brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/7bbad04d-de03-46df-a21b-8f29f7b75073/Raymond_Souster_Plaque.jpg Events - Make it stand out Raymond Souster plaque, designed by GEC, unveiled in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558383880310-VINMKP9YCCFCKYOY0NW7/Toronto_Canada_invite_FINAL.jpg Events Poetry reading with Giovanna Riccio and Slovenian Poets Miljana Cunta and Goran Kocijancic, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/f16239d8-6706-40f5-ba71-c0daada284a8/GECNorthIsFreedom.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/026f254f-b393-46ca-b542-06d2841de14c/The+Presenters+-+The+Pilot+-+Black+History+Month+Poster.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poster for GEC presenting Jazz poetry at Pilot Tavern, Toronto (ON), Feb 1, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a8c5ec45-61a0-4272-9240-bf581fc26f86/Pordenonne.JPG Events - Make it stand out Pordenonne, Italy, Sept 2012: Poetry reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/5765655c-497e-4e9d-a8fb-bb4e43660ea1/HangzhouNautical2025.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC featured in : " : ' -- ." Hangzhou Shopping Plaza, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, June 21, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/71f77376-22fe-434e-8bde-4c9b1b169c6d/Royal+Tease+by+Giovanna.jpg Events - Make it stand out "Royal Tease": Photo by Giovanna Riccio. 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/88376e76-f387-47a6-a538-b6a9cf1694db/MRHAdultEdCtr1970s.gif Events - Make it stand out Marja Riitta Haapio--MRH--@ Helsinki, ca. 1972. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9b73b70c-3913-4d35-bcb8-c882978551dd/GaryEwer%28SymphonyNS%29%26GEC.png Events - Make it stand out Gary Ewer of Symphony Nova Scotia with GEC (Dec 6, 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/667152bc-f2f0-4e38-9daa-21603c8cd790/GEC%40St.+James+CAthedral%2C+Toronto%2C+Oct+29%2C+2023.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e512c066-7868-4d30-8ef8-9435e1df4403/GEC+%26+Hon.+Greg+FergusFeb26%2C2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1a87da14-3f39-40a8-bcef-2d254a20877a/5+Poets+%2313+Flyer.jpg Events - Make it stand out Flyer for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#13): Lives of Girls and Women. Sunday, July 28, 2024, Toronto, ON. Design: Gloria Maxx. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/2214d192-5ec7-4a47-9a47-eaaa464c480d/GEC+%2522Larger+Than+Life%2522+by+Katerina+Fretwell.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poet Katerina Fretwell executed this portrait of GEC entitled, Larger Than Life (2022). To my eye, my "dome" attains a Shakespearean likeness! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602979615001-1KIA5XZK4CM7IV9OHZFD/2014-05-02+16.07.19.jpg Events With Professors Ana Maria Fraile (University of Salamanca) and Fathi Darrag (Ain Shams University, Cairo), at Harvard University (2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/89253b91-50bd-4b19-bd14-f114aed8a90a/PENNYC2.jpg Events - Make it stand out PEN/Nabokov Award for M. NourbeSe Philip, spearheaded by GEC. NYC, March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/adae95fa-540f-43fd-a850-2e1af2599fd5/J%27AccuseLaunchTranzacApril1%2C2022byEricFefferman.jpg Events - Make it stand out Launch of J'Accuse...! (April 2022, Tranzac Club, Toronto). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558379314635-B23GCM0WK8VOQRG4PDLS/Adams+PhotographyIMG_7532.jpg Events 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/0614d740-8d08-44d9-bc9d-274429a71b09/GECPoundbyRiccio.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC on guard at Ezra Pound's grave, ensuring that he remains mere remains. May 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1585424624988-ACZ18ZEQ7AS9ES8CK15R/49614886921_4e349443ab_w.jpg Events GEC at the PEN America Awards Ceremony. NYC, March 2, 2020. Photo taken by Noam Galai. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/0cbb4d7b-b3af-491b-b03e-58407bf0104c/Workshop+spazio_Clarke.jpg Events - Make it stand out Workshop on Spazio at l’Università della Calabria, May 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558384326748-QS36O1B61ZS2TWCEEY8M/SAM_1494.JPG Events Poem on a Sculpture in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/962628d1-00df-4c40-a088-6b183ecdbc4c/GECBaptismbyLaraMartina.jpg Events - Make it stand out George receiving baptism, by Lara Martina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/55c41155-6447-4b76-a596-cafa4366c76e/5+Poets+%238.jpg Events - Make it stand out 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #8 (Poster by Lara Martina). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a970ff36-b631-4e1d-99aa-19fd3eac8f7a/unnamed+%281%29.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC in studio of CBC radio host, George Strombolopoulos (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/3b080dca-eeeb-49cc-b2c0-0822ab961abb/3+laureates%2C+WOTS+2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out Three Toronto Poet Laureates: Lillian Allen (#7), GEC (#4), Albert Moritz (#6). Word On the Street, Toronto, September 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602978776942-RN0KG0LG9D4L8MB3QP81/DSCF1498.JPG Events Bill Clarke's font (circa 1969). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/8b75ee25-99f4-4e18-a1f6-9e1dccde9cd6/AEA+Event.jpg Events - Make it stand out Africadian Empowerment Academy poster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e8dbb84f-4b22-4558-9528-958402cc095d/DSC02004.JPG Events - Make it stand out GEC on a camel at Cairo, Egypt, December 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/c46cf1ee-440f-4f7d-9700-e1d5848a7364/thumbnail_SobazBenjaminGECLindsayRuckMayannFrancis%26.jpg Events - Make it stand out SobazBenjamin, et al.: SB, GEC, Lindsay Ruck, Hon. Mayann Francis, Karen Hudson, Halifax (NS), Feb 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/c21f4d73-fcc4-4bf6-82bf-472962f62c12/BoundScores2.jpg Events - Make it stand out Bound Scores by James Rolfe. (GEC commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578628100573-QPEY4AYMFY1EG9JCHWPL/C28679BA-D6C2-464C-A060-31552B288375.jpg Events With rapper Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton), December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602979730169-LYB5SCQ3I6HEUU7CX3RF/10653615_10152362074298587_5314779543680759961_n.jpg Events Director Juanita Peters, cast, and choir, for George’s play, "Settling Africville," Dartmouth, NS (2014). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558384164165-EVA6152WEATKW2HAWBXV/SAM_5860.JPG Events “Seeing Beauty, at Woodbine.” Poem on a Construction Site, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602982105168-ZAI3UMGHXCGIEAATDIIY/cleanlivingondoorglass.jpg Events Art installation in Mexico City, featuring the title of one of George’s poems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602978733595-GPNRCANZ17F6PEJE4JY1/2014-02-15%2B%25281%2529.jpg Events My Afro-Metis Great Uncle Charlie Croxen, Newport Station, NS (1953). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045437191-6M6VWKWNZ5QS6PN6J2AP/IMG_0263.jpg Events With Sugar Plum Croxen, Nicole Rea, and Shelley Hamilton, Polson Park School, Kingston, Ontario, February 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558381392932-7QV94SBS98QGHP6H1D7J/IMG_0224.jpg Events Poem, "Rollcall," as reproduced by Grades 1 & 2 pupils at Polson Park School, Kingston, Ontario, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602980845939-X2KUGGSSQJLM8M2YABM8/BlankSonnet_GeorgeElliottClarke_taj+%281%29.jpg Events Blank Sonnet: Calligraphy by Taj. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/ec5f16c6-2701-40ad-98d9-ad4b09a62325/IMG045.jpg Events - Make it stand out Uncle Sock Johnson, Wolfville, NS, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/58019d2f-6a81-424c-9225-89693cf3f8b3/AMcLeod%26SimonePB%26GEC.jpg Events - Make it stand out Three Nova Scotian writers: Alastair MacLeod (Scottish), Simone Poirier-Bures (Acadian), and GEC (Afro-Metis/Africadian). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/7eac91fb-bf48-4b95-9045-ca0ca3b4efc2/George+Ottawa+Parliament.PNG Events - Make it stand out GEC with two Parliamentary Speakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a6ce770c-1980-4f9d-83bd-050f57df6bb4/GEC_Parliamentary+Poet+Laureate_05.01.2016.jpg Events - Make it stand out Parliamentary Poet Laureate Announcement on the News! (2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9b2c3c99-c9d0-4b59-a764-c354ba162654/Afro-Metis+Anthem.jpg Events - Make it stand out Gloria Maxx artwork celebrating contributors to the recording of the Afro-Metis Nation CD, "Anthem," summer 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/b1886096-1068-4040-bd93-89cf31f9a902/ACORN+-+MacEwen+on+Ward%27s+Island+-+2015++photos+by+Peter++++Rowe++++000000091.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC-designed plaque and bios for MacEwen & Acorn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/bfb2ef8a-dd7c-42b8-80fb-539f488b6634/GEC%26SugarPlumCroxen2019.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC & Sugar Plum Croxen, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/4e35f216-4872-459e-acc1-3b50af77b4fa/ArtInspiredbyIllicitSonnets%282013%29.jpg Events - Make it stand out Art inspired by GEC's Illicit Sonnets (2013), displayed in Windsor, Ontario, in October 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/b12b3b0f-ec9e-4e6d-952e-e4eddbe86805/JacksonPalmerRolfeClarke23+8+23.jpg Events - Make it stand out Three composers and one poet: D.D. Jackson, Juliet Palmer, James Rolfe, GEC: Toronto, 23 Aug 23. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/3df87bbf-f54d-4ef8-8ab4-fdf09c0f3fe5/Gio+Geo+Brains+Dinner+9+9+22.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/82110ea3-12d2-486c-ae2e-d585b12b7cf1/GECbyEthanNeville2.JPG Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/51b85e41-e7e1-4108-bedd-ee3c9013adb3/Gloria+Maxx+Art+for+GEC%2C+Mar+24%2C+2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/4d92de73-0490-4c5f-ab47-1a2060090eff/BlackFruitPoetryposter.png Events - Make it stand out Black Fruit Poetry Workshop, Toronto, May 2024. GEC was an instructor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/dd309d48-0b43-4f72-96cc-fc8f4e019118/thumbnail_Teajai+Travis+reading+GEC+poem.jpg Events - Make it stand out Teajai Travis reciting GEC poem in Windsor (ON) (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045542547-M6H1XSC7L9LT0F4K20A3/IMG_2719.JPG Events First publication of "Rollcall," with a real butterfly! 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/2ef45ef4-1022-4817-aa9c-5439ccb6738d/Judice%2CSwartz%2CGECLisbon2023.jpg Events - Make it stand out Portuguese poet Nino Judice (1949-2024) and Canadian poets David Swartz and GEC, in Lisbon, in May 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/0641252e-2ff0-4ce4-b840-8b1547834ac3/FINAL-5-Poets-Poster-8.5x11-JAN2025+-+Digital.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poster for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song (#16): Saltwater Spirituals and Uppity Blues (II)." Feb 8, 2025, Halifax (NS). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1580608448998-2BVSPQ9Z9P7C73BYTI9V/IMG_3987.jpg Events 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.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558382618910-T0AYU2VLTQ6JA95WOFEX/Opening+Ceremony+Poster-1.png Events A portrait by poster: Opening ceremony of Black History Month at McGill University, Montreal, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/3fdfab5d-3c2d-4be2-a004-980669a02f02/GEC%27s+63rd+Birthday%2C+HFX%2C+by+Kathryrn+Winkler.JPG Events - Make it stand out GEC's 63rd Birthday, Halifax (NS), 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/341e91c5-4167-4bdf-aa69-79e9bda71b64/Poster--5+Poets+%2315.png Events - Make it stand out Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 PoetsBreaking Into Song: The 15th Round," Truro (NS), February 7, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/67b4eaa9-5618-422c-9d29-cc5dcede0ebd/Abigail+Phillips+portrait.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Portrait by Abigail Elizabeth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602980580051-I588A8BSFPRQPZECNOEM/Screen+Shot+2020-10-17+at+8.22.20+PM.png Events African American Review Special Issue, advertisement (2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578628028591-Y13ERBVNY3HM2TWBFKJC/IMG_3784.jpg Events With Elizabeth Stacey, guide, US poet Robinson Jeffers's Tor House estate, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, August 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9ba106ad-29fc-4e91-ba81-ec815e30c489/thumbnail_RobertJeanJohnson.jpg Events - Make it stand out Robert/Jean: Matrilineal grandparents: Robert Johnson & Jean (Croxen) Johnson, Newport Station (NS), 1968. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/b9bc0110-f1df-4bb8-bfee-29afcf5ce1e0/BoundScores4.jpg Events - Make it stand out Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/722df9aa-b58c-43ba-a711-5893e987d67c/GECBoydWChubbs.jpg Events - Make it stand out Portrait by Boyd Warren Chubbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578867035383-32Q1TS4HYHCYJUEZ43Y1/IMG_1490.JPG Events GEC at John Cabot University, Roma, Italia, November 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e679e20a-9e0f-440c-966d-e2b5957440ce/AfroMetisNationDocumentaryMakers2018.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Afro-Metis Nation Documentary Crew, Halifax (NS), 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/51365878-7419-4551-abf6-0d339edf5032/BoundScores9.jpg Events - Make it stand out Bound Scores by D.D. Jackson. (GEC & Giovanna Riccio commissions.) Bookbinder: Don Taylor. 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/515def72-af18-48f5-aa3a-056452db1df7/GovHouseHfxFeb9%2C2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1606597149565-YNPKK0XY0L8MAU8AEG2U/IMG_2076.jpg Events At Archibald Lampman memorial, Morpeth, Ontario, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/8c780728-590a-4406-8f6f-61749b51b207/GEJ%2C+1950s.jpg Events - Make it stand out Photo of G.E. Johnson (later 1950s). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/3d82efbd-7afa-4a3a-9f67-272f3c840d47/GECHillsidePoster.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/be7c433f-4f53-4fa8-bedc-7cd1f402301f/GEC%40BransomeHall.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC@Branksome Hall Toronto (2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/dede8b80-7749-46ea-b593-9d6eff841647/George%2C+Bill%2C+Bryant%2C+1960%2C+62%2C+61.jpg Events - Make it stand out Band of Brothers: GEC, Bill Clarke, Bryant Clarke. Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax (NS). August 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e324f0eb-6165-4cea-81b4-cb6710b38058/GR+GEC+NYC.jpg Events - Make it stand out Gio & Geo @ NYC, PEN America, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/28ce72e2-7218-45ee-8505-0efe64f5af41/GECSkipWandaEarlTonyRocky.jpg Events - Make it stand out Africadian History Notables: GEC, Skip States, Wanda Robson, Gordon Earle, Tony Colaicovo, Burnley "Rocky" Jones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/c82c9d20-e824-48ed-934d-64280694fadb/DSC02014.JPG Events - Make it stand out GEC with The Great Sphinx (Cairo 2010) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1602979105545-F6CE2C2C44DH7RKYBBUY/ee1f817b-7ddb-4e03-9a02-e51f833c78da_thumbnail_600_600.jpg.jpg Events My patrilineal Great Aunt and diva, Portia White (1911-68). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/41579b23-d68a-471d-ab78-9d7b32224370/Poster--5+Poets+%2314.png Events - Make it stand out Poster by Shirley Chen of Shanghai for "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: The 14th Amendment," Toronto (ON), December 7, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/e64ff821-e034-424c-935a-36e3f26b0a02/Malta+17.-23.8.2011+021.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC in Malta, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/0bce46e3-5c31-467c-b5c9-78a3891e2e62/5+Poets+3.png Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/3c0f5e77-5b0e-49d0-9d16-9716ccffe12d/JohnWallBarger%26GEC%40Philly2023.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poet John Wall Barger & GEC, Philly (PA), March 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/fcf9e655-ffdb-45b7-979b-fd0c3671f7d8/5+POETS+BREAKING+INTO+SONG%232.jpg Events - Make it stand out 5 Poets Breaking into Song #1 (2021). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/7d59bc85-57ea-4b21-b82c-695ca0cd02ae/5Poets%2316Val-LynnPatterson.JPG Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1a5e268f-b152-44d1-8b92-9bbab944d00c/YoonChoiDec2024RedwoodTheatre.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Yoon Choi preparing for performance in "5 Poets Breaking Into Song: The 14th Amendment," Redwood Theatre, Toronto (ON), Dec 2024. Photo: Choucri Paul Zemokhol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/6277e7a6-23ed-4caf-b2b0-3281f25e789a/FarzanaNazShompaGECbook.jpeg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/0a223f35-77d3-484d-b509-9614b19fcf44/Poster-5Poets%2311.jpg Events - Make it stand out 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #11 (Poster by Halifax Public Libraries). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/ea5ee549-ec3c-4cf6-bb51-dc6e421e6fea/LaurieLindaKarenSheilaGiovannaAMN2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out Laurie, Linda, Karen, Sheila, & Giovanna @ Ken Whiteley's studio's backyard for Afro-Metis Nation "Anthem" recording sessions. July 2024, Toronto (ON). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/d4325e5b-f25f-4a25-9b92-e01cb4211857/AMCGECJulieMorinAmaEdePPLInstallation.JPG Events - Make it stand out 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate Installation (2016): AMC, GEC, Julie Morin, Ama Ede. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/37895134-8b01-448e-b10b-84ad84aded42/Screenshot+%284%29.png Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558381518943-WHZCEASYQYTZ2AU44O5H/IMG_5509+lo-res.jpg Events Remembrance Day ceremony, Queen's Park, Toronto, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1579109988507-27MX5F6WPA2E4DXGQ7BY/Screen+Shot+2020-01-15+at+12.38.52+PM.png Events Canticles I x 2 somewhere near Roma, Italia, January 2020. (Photo by Lara Martina.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/522619c4-0876-41a6-a701-e841c2b2b6fc/CWhiteSAmeenGMaxxLaurieKAshtonMAmeen.jpg Events - Make it stand out Part of the team recording "Anthem" in July 2024: Chris White, Sid Ameen, Gloria Maxx, Laurie & Karen Ashton, and Margaret Ameen. Toronto (ON). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/6cb2c863-10cc-42c5-86ed-dfcf27c41f84/GEC_GreggFrench_BrendaMcCurdy_UWindsor2024.jpg Events - Make it stand out 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/f695de0b-1710-4088-ac3c-8a3111bb4a2e/IMG_2258.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC with trophy from Encyclopedic Poetry School of Beijing, China. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9d8fc48d-17de-47c8-bed4-069fa9dafcef/IMG_6701.JPG Events - Make it stand out GEC with Fawn White, CM, at Canadian Cemetery at Ortona, Italia, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045866726-1LJA9VVB8J51WR2J1FZJ/Susan+O+and+George+at+CKCU+2.jpg Events With Susan Odle, CKCU-FM, Ottawa (ON), 2017. Her music for "Everything Is Free" is pure beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1578866948212-1WRG8GUAHPNFH7GR57AJ/IMG_1527.JPG Events GEC with bassist Roberto Occhipinti, in a joint performance, Toronto, ON, December 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/c0e7e029-67e9-48b8-abb8-399369092b09/Screenshots_2021-02-12-11-01-49.png Events - Make it stand out Bro Bill Clarke's 61st birthday salute to GEC! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/a643cc65-b0d0-4804-96f4-0d70f7fd42fa/20241012_172157.jpg Events - Make it stand out Celebrating the life of Marja Haapio (1941-2024): Pekka Hesanto & GEC @ Helsinki, Finland, October 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1585424512880-GSQ5QT9CYEP4XW6QFZTR/49492957717_8dedaa0879_c.jpg Events GEC at the PEN America Freedom of Speech Gala, NYC, January 24, 2020, with Jane Marchant, Roy Wang, et al. 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Painting by my father, William Clarke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9ea2c105-22a7-4aee-af45-9edd01839773/GECBeijing%232Jan2025.jpg Events - Make it stand out GEC poem, "Looking at a Book Three Ways," on display in Beijing, PRC, January 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/57e5057e-b9c5-462a-b568-04915dcf69ae/Poster+for+CVFS+Event+for+HCM+Anniversary.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poster for Ho Chi Minh Commemoration for which GEC recited the revolutionary's poetry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/8cfe15e5-f5cc-44f2-8c70-0212b5200f26/GEC+RockyLakeJH+mural%2C+Bedford%2C+NS.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/957985ff-23e5-4c4d-8ae6-3be8a31002c8/Aurelia%27s+Sash.png Events - Make it stand out Aurelia Clarke modelling Afro-Metis sash designed by poet Troy B. 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GEC & Giovanna Riccio, Jan 2025, Toronto (ON). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/9d116bb5-a28f-4286-b524-7582f75c2011/LEAP+Launch%2C+15.09.2015_ed.jpg Events - Make it stand out With Naomi Klein, Joseph Boyden, et al., at LEAP launch, Sept 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1608677995957-ZN35M5FVF0P68KZ332O8/IMG_0260.JPG Events At the Order of Canada Garden Party, Rideau Hall, Ottawa, August 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/8393f268-3b90-4a0e-85c8-ee85fe40921e/5+poets+5th+edition.jpg Events - Make it stand out Poster: 5 Poets Breaking Into Song #5 (by Shirley Chen). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/92761924-5c53-463c-99bd-5cbd83d56161/PortiaWhiteCBCHeritage.png Events - Make it stand out Portia White remembered by the CBC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558382777309-5SVSEXFGIJBO4ND0ACPK/Ramsden_inSitu.jpg Events Poem for Ramsden Park, Toronto, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558379088823-0I32GHQTGARQDE2WYTKF/047%281%29.JPG Events Bruno Censori backing up Clarke at Poetry Vicenza performance, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1603045672374-P51SVPAEPTY00J7C9W4C/Poetry+in+Transit_SAM_4462_ed..jpg Events Poetry in Transit, Toronto, Ontario, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/22d788d1-53a4-4018-8522-f292b6faedba/Harry+Jerome+Vivian+White+Bill+White+%E2%80%93+Order+of+Canada+1970.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Olympic Sprinter Harry Jerome, Vivian White, composer and social democrat Bill White, Rideau Hall, Ottawa (ON). 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Photo by Choucri Zemokhol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/42255734-1bb3-4989-9123-081a1bb991ea/Vine+2.JPG Events - Make it stand out Bard with infant Bacchus - 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/23f7701a-e70d-46fc-95c3-b85ca4fa0d13/GeraldineClarke%26GECHSgraduation1978.jpg Events - Make it stand out Geraldine Clarke & GEC High School graduation, Halifax, 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/ab9ff59e-2aa5-430c-9650-c11f8ab482f7/Gio+Roma4.JPG Events - Make it stand out Giovanna Riccio @ Roma (IT) 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8c7e696e76f1731f08990/1558379276293-XQXE4B342QK4WT204GQE/201506209999_78.JPG Events With Poets Laureate John B. 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