George Elliott Clarke

The Fire Sermon

April 15, 2016August 18, 2020 - by George Elliott Clarke

Part three of a series “covering” T. S. Eliot’s most famous poem [German translation by Paul Celan (1947)] Herr Hitler Himmler, the two-backed, two-faced beast, hissing ss-ss-ss-ss-ss, gives birth to …

December 2015 / Poetry

Julia Ward Howe Composes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1861)

November 16, 2015January 2, 2020 - by George Elliott Clarke

Untrammelled roads admit no unbridled horses: Violence outpaces prayer. Apple blossoms vanish violently: Beauty just gets blown away. Ideally, we plant trees, not corpses; prefer husbandry, then harvest. But, during …

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History: Map or Trap?

May 3, 2014April 14, 2020 - by George Elliott Clarke

There is a message in all this bleeding

April 2006 / Arts & Culture

Poetic Rule

April 12, 2006June 2, 2020 - by George Elliott Clarke

Liberty is a work of art

November 2005 / Poetry

Bluing Green

November 12, 2005May 11, 2020 - by George Elliott Clarke

“The problem with jazz is miscegenation”? Say I want purity, to be pure black, Coloured to purge every bit of whiteness From my innards, my psyche, my senses, So that, …

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George Elliott Clarke

The Fire Sermon

Julia Ward Howe Composes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1861)

History: Map or Trap?

Poetic Rule

Bluing Green

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