This free, public webinar will present the peace poetry of
George Elliott Clarke and Gary Geddes. It is cosponsored by World BEYOND
War and A Different Booklist.
The timing will be February 24, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. in Honolulu,
4:00 p.m. in Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m. in Mexico City, and 7:00 p.m. in New
York, which is the same time as February 25, 2022, at 12:00 a.m.
midnight in London, 3:00 a.m. in Moscow, 3:30 a.m. in Tehran, 5:30 a.m.
in New Dehli, 8:00 a.m. in Beijing, 9:00 a.m. in Tokyo, 11:00 a.m. in
Sydney, and 1:00 p.m. in Auckland.
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The event will include presentations, followed by Q&A, from these presenters:
George Elliott Clarke is the 4th Poet Laureate of
Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate
(2016-17). A professor of English at the University of Toronto, Clarke
has also taught at Duke, McGill, UBC, and Harvard. His recognitions
include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Fellowship, Pierre
Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry,
National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, Premiul Poesis (Romania), the
Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry, and International Fellow Poet of the
Year, Encyclopedic Poetry School [2019] (China). His acclaimed titles
include Whylah Falls (1990), Beatrice Chancy (1999), Execution Poems (2001), Blues and Bliss (selected poems, 2009), I & I (2008),(2008), Illicit Sonnets (U.K., 2013), Traverse (2015), and Canticles II (MMXX) (2020).
Gary Geddes has written and edited more than 50 books of poetry, fiction, drama,
nonfiction, criticism, translation, and anthologies and been the
recipient of a dozen national and international literary awards,
including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), National
Magazine Gold Award, Lt.-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence,
Freedom to Read Award, and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from the
government of Chile, awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz, Vaclav
Havel, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti, and Mario Benedetti. He has
lectured and performed his work in 20 countries and been translated into
six languages.
You can order signed copies of the authors' books from A Different Booklist.
Moderator:
Rachel Small is Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War. She is
based in Toronto, Canada, on Dish with One Spoon and Treaty 13
Indigenous territory. Rachel is a community organizer. She has organized within local and
international social/environmental justice movements for over a decade,
with a special focus on working in solidarity with communities harmed by
Canadian extractive industry projects in Latin America. She has also
worked on campaigns and mobilizations around climate justice,
decolonization, anti-racism, disability justice, and food sovereignty.
She has organized in Toronto with the Mining Injustice Solidarity
Network and has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University.
She has a background in art-based activism and has facilitated projects
in community mural-making, independent publishing and media, spoken
word, guerilla theatre, and communal cooking with people of all ages
across Canada. She lives downtown with her partner, kid, and friend, and
can often be found at a protest or direct action, gardening, spray
painting, and playing softball. Rachel can be reached at [email protected]
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