{"id":3052,"date":"2024-11-02T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:16:28","slug":"breakfast-speaker-september-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-september-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Speaker September 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/georgeelliot\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-september-20-2025\/georgeelliot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/georgeelliot.jpg?fit=226%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"226,258\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"georgeelliot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/georgeelliot.jpg?fit=226%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3090 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/georgeelliot.jpg?resize=226%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Elliott Clarke, OC, ONS, FRCGS, PhD, LLD (etc.)<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nBio<br \/>\nA revered poet, writer, and scholar, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova<br \/>\nScotia, near the Black Loyalist- and Black Refugee-settled community of Three Mile<br \/>\nPlains, in 1960. A member of the Eastern Woodland M\u00e9tis Nation Nova Scotia, he\u2019s of<br \/>\nIndigenous admixture\u2014both matrilineal (Cherokee) and (likely) patrilineal (Mi\u2019kmaq).<br \/>\nA graduate of the University of Waterloo (B.A., Hons.,1984), Dalhousie University<br \/>\n(M.A., 1989), and Queen\u2019s University (Ph.D., 1993), Clarke is now the inaugural E.J.<br \/>\nPratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.<br \/>\nAn Assistant Professor of English and Canadian Studies at Duke University, North<br \/>\nCarolina, 1994-1999, Clarke also served as the Seagrams Visiting Chair in Canadian<br \/>\nStudies at McGill University, 1998-1999, and as a Noted Scholar at the University of<br \/>\nBritish Columbia (2002) and as a Visiting Scholar at Mount Allison University (2005),<br \/>\nand as the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at<br \/>\nHarvard University (2013-14).<br \/>\nHe has also worked as a researcher (Ontario Provincial Parliament, 1982-83), editor<br \/>\n(Imprint, University of Waterloo, 1984-85, and The Rap, Halifax, NS, 1985-87), social<br \/>\nworker (Black United Front of Nova Scotia, 1985-86), parliamentary aide (House of<br \/>\nCommons, 1987-91), and newspaper columnist (The Daily News, Halifax, NS, 1988-89,<br \/>\nand The Halifax Herald, Halifax, NS, 1992-2016).<br \/>\nHe lives in Toronto, Ontario, but he also owns land in Nova Scotia. He coined the terms<br \/>\nAfricadia\/Africadian and he has pioneered the study of African-Canadian literature.<br \/>\nHis many honours include<br \/>\nthe Portia White Prize for Artistic Achievement (1998),<br \/>\nGovernor-General\u2019s Award for Poetry (2001),<br \/>\nthe National Magazine Gold Medal for Poetry (2001),<br \/>\nthe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (2004),<br \/>\nthe Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship Prize (2005-08),<br \/>\nthe Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction (2006),<br \/>\nthe Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (U.S. 2009),<br \/>\nestablishment of the George Elliott Clarke International Scholarship at Duke University<br \/>\n(2018),<br \/>\nappointment to the Order of Nova Scotia (2006),<br \/>\nappointment to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer (2008),<br \/>\nappointment as Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto (2012-15),<br \/>\nappointment as Parliamentary [National] Poet Laureate (2016-17),<br \/>\nappointment as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2017),<br \/>\nappointment as Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets (2021),<br \/>\n2<br \/>\nappointment as Life Member of The Ontario Poetry Society (2024),<br \/>\nreceipt of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for \u201cService to the Arts\u201d<br \/>\n(2022),<br \/>\nand the receipt of eight honorary doctorates.<br \/>\nWebsite: georgeelliottclarke.net<br \/>\nAwards &amp; Honours<br \/>\n1981\u2014First Prize\u2014Poetry\u2014Writers\u2019 Federation of Nova Scotia provincial competition;<br \/>\n1991\u2014Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry\u2014Ottawa Independent Writers\u2014awarded<br \/>\nto Whylah Falls as best book of poetry published by an Ottawa-based poet;<br \/>\n1993\u2014Invitee\u2014World Poetry Festival, Harbourfront Reading Series, Toronto;<br \/>\n1997\u2014$12,000 Canada Council Arts Grant \u201cB\u201d\u2014awarded for manuscript of Beatrice<br \/>\nChancy;<br \/>\n1998\u2014Portia White Prize\u2014Nova Scotia Arts Council\u2014$25,000 award for artistic<br \/>\nexcellence;<br \/>\n1998\u2014Bellagio Center Fellowship\u2014Rockefeller Foundation of New York\u2014a one-<br \/>\nmonth residency at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, awarded to allow the<br \/>\ncompletion of the manuscript of Beatrice Chancy;<br \/>\n1999\u2014Honorary Doctor of Laws degree\u2014Dalhousie University;<br \/>\n1999\u2014Alumni Achievement Award\u2014University of Waterloo;<br \/>\n2000\u2014Honorary Doctor of Letters degree\u2014University of New Brunswick;<br \/>\n2000\u2014Outstanding Screenwriter Award\u2014Toronto Black Film &amp; Video Network\u2014<br \/>\nawarded for One Heart Broken Into Song (CBC-TV, 1999);<br \/>\n2001\u2014Governor-General\u2019s Literary Award for Poetry\u2014$15,000 award for selection of<br \/>\nExecution Poems as best book of poetry published in English in Canada;<br \/>\n2002\u2014National Magazine Foundation Gold Award for Poetry\u2014$1,500 award for<br \/>\nselection of six poems published in Prairie Fire as best poetry published in any<br \/>\nEnglish-Canadian magazine in 2001;<br \/>\n2003\u2014Appointed by Her Excellency, The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, Governor-<br \/>\nGeneral of Canada, to the Board of Directors of the Canada Council for the Arts;<br \/>\n2003\u2014Appointed E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of<br \/>\nToronto;<br \/>\n2004\u2014Martin Luther King, Jr. Award\u2014Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal\u2014awarded<br \/>\nfor achievement;<br \/>\n2004\u2014Estelle and Ludwig Jus Memorial Human Rights Award\u2014University of Toronto<br \/>\nAlumni Association;<br \/>\n2005\u2014Harbourfront Centre (Toronto) Fresh Ground Commission&#8211;$20,000\u2014shared with<br \/>\ncomposer dd Jackson to write opera, Trudeau: Long March\/Shining Path.<br \/>\n2005\u2014Distinguished Teacher Award\u2014Student Administrative Council, University of<br \/>\nToronto;<br \/>\n2005\u2014Honorary Doctor of Letters degree\u2014University of Alberta;<br \/>\n2005\u2014African Renaissance Award\u2014Planet Africa Television;<br \/>\n2005\u2014Faculty Award\u2014University of Toronto Black Alumni Association;<br \/>\n2005\u2014Trudeau Foundation Trudeau Fellowship Prize\u2014$225,000 award, over three<br \/>\nyears, to support artistic and scholarly work;<br \/>\n3<br \/>\n2006\u2014Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction\u2014Atlantic Book Awards\u2014$1,500 award for<br \/>\nGeorge &amp; Rue;<br \/>\n2006\u2014Frontieras Poesis Premiul [Prize]\u2014Poesis [Magazine], Satu Mare, Romania\u2014<br \/>\n$500 award and statuette in honour of poems in translation;<br \/>\n2006\u2014Appointed by Her Honour, The Hon. Mayann Francis, Lieutenant-Governor<br \/>\nof Nova Scotia, to the Order of Nova Scotia;<br \/>\n2006\u2014Honorary Doctor of Letters degree\u2014University of Waterloo;<br \/>\n2008\u2014Honorary Fellow of the Haliburton Society\u2014University of King\u2019s College;<br \/>\n2008\u2014Honorary Doctor of Letters degree\u2014Saint Mary\u2019s University;<br \/>\n2008\u2014Appointed by Her Excellency, The Rt. Hon. Michaelle Jean, Governor-General<br \/>\nof Canada, to the Order of Canada at the rank of Officer;<br \/>\n2008\u2014William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations, City of Toronto;<br \/>\n2009\u2014Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry, Hopewell Publications, awarded to Blues and<br \/>\nBliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke, ed. Jon Paul Fiorentino;<br \/>\n2009\u2014Honorary Doctor of Laws degree\u2014Royal Military College of Canada;<br \/>\n2010\u2014Honorary Doctor of Laws degree\u2014University of Windsor;<br \/>\n2012\u2014Honorary Doctor of Letters degree\u2014Acadia University;<br \/>\n2012\u2014The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal;<br \/>\n2012\u2014Excellence in the Arts Award\u2014Canadian Civil Liberties Association.<br \/>\n2012\u2014Appointed by the City Council to the post of Poet Laureate of Toronto.<br \/>\nHonorarium: $10,000 per annum for the three-year term.<br \/>\n2014\u2014Appointed Full Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto.<br \/>\n2016-17\u2014Appointed by The Parliament of Canada to the post of Parliamentary<br \/>\n[National] Poet Laureate.<br \/>\nHonorarium: $20,000 per annum for the two-year term.<br \/>\n2017\u2014Lifetime Achievement Award, Dalhousie University Alumni Association.<br \/>\n2017\u2014Trailblazers Award\u2014Michaelle Jean Foundation and Federation of Black<br \/>\nCanadians.<br \/>\n2017\u2014Appointed, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.<br \/>\n2018\u2014George Elliott Clarke Scholarship Fund established at Duke University,<br \/>\nthanks to a gift from Ms. Rebecca Gardiner.<br \/>\n2019\u2014International Fellow Poets of the Year\u2014Encyclopedic Poetry School, Beijing,<br \/>\nChina. Statuette presented.<br \/>\n2021\u2014Appointed Life Member, League of Canadian Poets;<br \/>\n[2022\u2014Two GEC songs (music by Delvin E. Bernard) included on Slaight Family<br \/>\nPolaris Heritage Prize-winning album, We\u2019re Still Standing (1987), by Four the<br \/>\nMoment];<br \/>\n2023\u2014The Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal;<br \/>\n2024\u2014Named a \u201cMost Notable\u201d Alumnus of Dalhousie University;<br \/>\n2024\u2014Lifetime Membership, The Ontario Poetry Society.<br \/>\nCollected Works<br \/>\n4<br \/>\nPoetry<br \/>\nSaltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues. Pottersfield Press, 1983.<br \/>\nWhylah Falls. Raincoast\u2014Polestar Books, 1990, 2000; Gaspereau Press, 2010.<br \/>\nLush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems. Pottersfield Press, 1994.<br \/>\nExecution Poems. Gaspereau Press. 2000, 2001; 2009.<br \/>\nBlue. Raincoast\u2014Polestar Books, 2001, 2008; Gaspereau Press, 2011.<br \/>\nIlluminated Verses. Canadian Scholars Press\u2014Kellom Books, 2005.<br \/>\nBlack. Raincoast\u2014Polestar Books, 2006; Gaspereau Press, 2012.<br \/>\nBlues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke, ed. Jon Paul Fiorentino. Wilfrid<br \/>\nLaurier University Press, 2008.<br \/>\nI &amp; I. Goose Lane Editions, 2009.<br \/>\nRed. Gaspereau Press, 2011.<br \/>\nIllicit Sonnets. Eyewear Publishing, 2013, 2016.<br \/>\nLasso the Wind: Aur\u00e9lia\u2019s Verses and Other Poems. Illus. Susan Tooke. Nimbus Books,<br \/>\n2013.<br \/>\nTraverse. Exile Editions, 2014. 2nd printing: 2014.<br \/>\nExtra Illicit Sonnets. Exile Editions, 2015.<br \/>\nGold. Gaspereau Press, 2016.<br \/>\nCanticles I (MMXVI). Guernica Editions. 2016.<br \/>\nCanticles I (MMXVII). Guernica Editions, 2017.<br \/>\nThese Are the Words. [The Gospel of Tobit by GEC &amp; Bread, Water, Love by John B.<br \/>\nLee.] Hidden Brook Press, 2018. [The Gospel of Tobit= pp. 1-71.]<br \/>\nCanticles II (MMXIX). Guernica Editions, 2019.<br \/>\nPortia White: A Portrait in Words. Nimbus Books, 2019.<br \/>\nCanticles II (MMXX). Guernica Editions, 2020.<br \/>\nJ\u2019Accuse\u2026! (Poem Versus Silence). Exile Editions, 2021.<br \/>\nWhite. Gaspereau Press, 2021.<br \/>\nCanticles III (MMXXII). Guernica Editions, 2022.<br \/>\nCanticles III (MMXXIII). Guernica Editions, 2023.<br \/>\nFiction<br \/>\nGeorge &amp; Rue: A Novel. HarperCollins Canada, 2004; Secker &amp; Warburg, 2005, Carroll<br \/>\n&amp; Graf, 2006; Vintage, 2006; Random House (E-book), 2012.<br \/>\nThe Motorcyclist. HarperCollins Canada, 2016. HarperCollins Canada (paperback),<br \/>\n2017.<br \/>\nProse<br \/>\nEd. Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing. 2 vols.<br \/>\nPottersfield Press, 1991-1992.<br \/>\n5<br \/>\nEd. Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature.<br \/>\nMcClelland &amp; Stewart, 1997.<br \/>\nEd. The Dalhousie Review. Special Africadian Issue. [1999] 1997.<br \/>\nOdysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Press,<br \/>\n2002.<br \/>\nDirections Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature. University of Toronto<br \/>\nPress, 2012.<br \/>\nOn Entering the Echo Chamber of Epic: My \u201cCanticles\u201d vs. Pound\u2019s Cantos. Nanaimo,<br \/>\nBC: Vancouver Island University \/ Arbutus Editions, 2016.<br \/>\nEd., Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections. Toronto:<br \/>\nTightrope Books, 2017.<br \/>\nEd., African American Review, Special Issue on African-Canadianit\u00e9, 51.3 (Fall 2018).<br \/>\nThe Quest for a \u201cNational\u201d Nationalism: E.J. Pratt\u2019s Epic Ambition, \u201cRace\u201d<br \/>\nConsciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity. St. John\u2019s (NL):<br \/>\nBreakwater Books, 2021.<br \/>\nWhere Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.<br \/>\nWhere Beauty Survived: A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia. Toronto:<br \/>\nVintage Canada, 2023.<br \/>\nWhiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness. Montr\u00e9al: V\u00e9hicule Press, 2023.<br \/>\nEd., Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon: The Autobiography of Dr. Howard D.<br \/>\nMcCurdy. Halifax: Nimbus Books, 2023.<br \/>\nDrama<br \/>\nWhylah Falls: The Play. Playwrights Canada Press, 1999, 2000.<br \/>\nBeatrice Chancy. Raincoast\u2014Polestar Books, 1999, 2008.<br \/>\nQu\u00e9b\u00e9cit\u00e9: A Jazz Fantasia in Three Cantos. Gaspereau Press. 2003.<br \/>\nTrudeau: Long March \/ Shining Path. Gaspereau Press. 2007.<br \/>\nThe Merchant of Venice (Retried). Gaspereau Press, 2017.<br \/>\n\u201cSettling Africville.\u201d Scripting (In)migration: New Canadian Plays. Ed. Yana Meerzon.<br \/>\nToronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2019. 107-173.<br \/>\nLibretti<br \/>\n\u201cBeatrice Chancy: An Opera Libretto in Four Acts.\u201d Canadian Theatre Review. 1998.<br \/>\n\u201cQu\u00e9b\u00e9cit\u00e9: An Opera Libretto in Three Cantos.\u201d Canadian Theatre Review. 2002.<br \/>\n\u201cTrudeau: Long March \/ Shining Path.\u201d Canadian Theatre Review. 2006.<br \/>\nChapbooks &amp; Limited Editions<br \/>\nWar Canticles. Vallum Chapbook series No. 34. Montreal: Vallum Society for Arts and<br \/>\nLetters Education, 2022. Poetry. 125 copies.<br \/>\nAt Ortona: An Oratorio. One poem plus French translation [A Ortona: Un Oratorio] by<br \/>\n6<br \/>\nRobert Paquin and an Italian translation [A Ortona: Oratorio] by Riccardo<br \/>\nDuranti. Roma: Embassy of Canada to Italy, Villa Grandi, Roma, Italia, 2018.<br \/>\n200 copies.<br \/>\nThe Denouement of Poet Laureate George: Writings of December 2017. Ottawa:<br \/>\nOttawa Antiquarian Bookfair, 28 October 2018. 120 copies.<br \/>\nElegies: Literary and Political, 2016-2017. Ottawa: 37th Ottawa Antiquarian Bookfair,<br \/>\n22 October 2017. 150 copies.<br \/>\nRollcall\/Appel. Ottawa: Canadian Heritage \/ Patrimoine canadien, 2017. Bilingual. 500<br \/>\ncopies.<br \/>\nSelected Canticles. Ottawa: above \/ ground press, 2012. Poetry. 300 copies.<br \/>\nTo the Muse. [Includes 8 poems in Giulio Marra\u2019s Italian translations: \u201cPortenti,\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDissertazione sul Mio Nome,\u201d \u201cLinguaggio,\u201d \u201cIV.ii,\u201d \u201cIII.iv [Il Poeta e il<br \/>\nTempo],\u201d \u201c\u00c0 Edgar Mittelh\u00f6lzer,\u201d \u201cAutobiografia (II),\u201d and \u201cTestamento.\u201d]<br \/>\nPresented in connection with \u201cGeorge Elliott Clarke: una performance di poesia e<br \/>\nmusica, con [musicians] Gionni Di Clemente e Bruno Censori, presentazione di<br \/>\nMarco Fazzini,\u201d Bar Borsa \/ Panic Jazz Club, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy,<br \/>\nSeptember 23, 2012. 50 copies.<br \/>\nDa Una Stanza. [Trans. Marco Fazzini.] Vicenza, Italy: L\u2019Officina arte contemporanea,<br \/>\nSeptember 23, 2012. 50 copies.<br \/>\nDa Una Stanza. [Trans. Marco Fazzini.] Vicenza, Italy: L\u2019Officina arte contemporanea<br \/>\nin occasione della lettura al Teatro Comunale, 16 aprile 2012. 290 copies.<br \/>\nSelected Canticles. Maxville, ON: above\/ground press, 2012. 100 copies.<br \/>\nThe Gospel of X. Vallum Chapbook series No. 9. Montreal: Vallum Society for Arts and<br \/>\nLetters Education, 2010. Poetry. 200 copies.<br \/>\nAfricadian History: An Exhibition Catalogue. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2001.<br \/>\nPoetry. 400 copies.<br \/>\nBlue (II). Included in anthology, Running with Scissors: New Poetry by 19 Young<br \/>\nWriters. Eds. Andy Brown &amp; Meg Sircom. Montr\u00e9al: Cumulus Press, 2001.<br \/>\nPoetry. 500 copies.<br \/>\nExecution Poems. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2000. Poetry. 66 copies.<br \/>\nGold Indigoes. Durham, NC: Carolina Wren Press, 2000. Poetry. 500 copies.<br \/>\nProven\u00e7al Songs [II]. Ottawa: above \/ ground press, 1997. Poetry. 150 copies.<br \/>\nProven\u00e7al Songs. Ottawa: Magnum Book Store, 1993. Poetry. 30 copies.<br \/>\nTranslation<br \/>\nPoeme Incendiare. Trans. Flavia Cosma. Oradea, Romania: Editura Cogito, 2006.<br \/>\n[Poetry]<br \/>\n[Many Kinds of Love: Heavenly, Earthy, and Hellish. Trans. of Whylah Falls.] Trans.<br \/>\nTong Renshan. Beijing: International Publishing, 2006. [Poetry]<br \/>\nGeorge Elliott Clarke: Poesie e Drammi. [Trans. &amp; Ed.] Giulio Marra. Venezia, Italia:<br \/>\nStudio LT2, 2012. [Poetry]<br \/>\nScreenplay<br \/>\n7<br \/>\nOne Heart Broken Into Song. Feature Film. Prod: CBC-TV. 1999.<br \/>\nBeatrice Chancy: The Opera. Feature Film. Prod: CBC-TV. 2001.<br \/>\nStage Productions<br \/>\nWhylah Falls: The Play. Dartmouth NS: Eastern Front Theatre, 1997, 2000; Ottawa ON:<br \/>\nNational Arts Centre, 1998, 2000; Venice, Italy: Universite de Venezia, 2002.<br \/>\nBeatrice Chancy: The Play. Toronto ON: Theatre Passe Muraille, 1997.<br \/>\nBeatrice Chancy: The Opera. Toronto ON: Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company,<br \/>\n1998, 1999; Dartmouth NS: Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company, 1999;<br \/>\nEdmonton AB: Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company, 2001.<br \/>\nQu\u00e9b\u00e9cit\u00e9: A Jazz Opera. Guelph ON: Guelph Jazz Festival, 2003; Vancouver, BC:<br \/>\nVancouver Jazz Festival, 2003.<br \/>\nEast Coasting, or Make It Beautiful. Toronto, ON: CBC Radio, \u201cWords &amp; Music<br \/>\nSeries,\u201d Glenn Gould Theatre, 2004.<br \/>\nTrudeau: Long March \/ Shining Path. Wolfville, NS: Summer Institute of the Trudeau<br \/>\nFoundation, 2006; Toronto, ON: Africanadian Playwrights Festival, 2006;<br \/>\nToronto, ON: Harbourfront Centre Corporation, 2007; Halifax, NS: Pier 21<br \/>\nMuseum and Mulan Chinese Cultural Centre, 2007; Department of Political<br \/>\nScience, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, 2008.<br \/>\nQu\u00e9b\u00e9cit\u00e9: The Play. Ottawa, ON: Pennyworth Productions, 2006.<br \/>\nQu\u00e9b\u00e9cit\u00e9: A Jazz Opera. Bethlehem, PA: Moravian College, 2009.<br \/>\nBeatrice Chancy: The Play. Toronto, ON: Tarragon Theatre, 2009.<br \/>\nTrudeau: Long March \/ Shining Path. Halifax, NS: Vocalypse Productions, 2010.<br \/>\nBeatrice Chancy: The Play. Winnipeg, MB: Aqua Books, 2011.<br \/>\n\u201cSettling Africville.\u201d Halifax, NS: San Family Productions, 2014.<br \/>\nStudies<br \/>\nAfricadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke. Ed. Joe Pivato. Toronto: Guernica<br \/>\nEditions, 2012.<br \/>\nContemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 459. Ed. Joe Pivato. Farmington Hills, MI:<br \/>\nGale, 2020.<br \/>\nRecording<br \/>\nGeorge Elliott Clarke: Lush Dreams, Blue Exile. Halifax, NS: Pottersfield Soundtracks,<br \/>\n1994. Tape.<br \/>\nGeorge Elliott Clarke Koin\u00e9 Opera (GECKO). Vicenza, Italy: The Art Box, 2017. CD.<br \/>\nThe Afro-M\u00e9tis Nation, Constitution. Toronto: The Afro-M\u00e9tis Nation, 2019. CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Elliott Clarke, OC, ONS, FRCGS, PhD, LLD (etc.) 1 Bio A revered poet, writer, and scholar, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist- and Black Refugee-settled community of Three Mile Plains, in 1960. A member of the Eastern Woodland M\u00e9tis Nation Nova Scotia, he\u2019s of Indigenous admixture\u2014both matrilineal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-september-20-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast Speaker September 20, 2025<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-Ne","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}