Two of Canada’s most eminent African-Canadian poets will headline this year’s Faculty of Education Distinguished Speaker Series.<\/p>\n
George Elliott Clarke and Pamela Mordecai present Audible Motion: New School Black Verse on Thursday, April 11.<\/p>\n
Their presentation, covering class time, playtime, and contemplation, will engage the illicit and subversive aspects of each of their new verse collections.<\/p>\n
It happens from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Sankey Chamber.<\/p>\n
Clarke is the E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto and current poet laureate of Toronto.<\/p>\n
He won the Governor General’s poetry award for his collection called Execution Poems. His latest collection, Illicit Sonnets, is set to be released this year.<\/p>\n
Mordecai is a former language arts teacher, who has written textbooks and articles on Caribbean literature and language education. She has written poems and stories for both adults and children.<\/p>\n
Her fifth collection of poetry, Subversive Sonnets, was published last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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