George Elliott Clarke is named Toronto's fourth poet laureate,

Congratulations to above/ground press author George Elliott Clarke, who has been named Toronto's fourth poet laureate after Dionne Brand, Pier Giorgio di Cicco and Dennis Lee. See the Quill and Quire article here, and TO live with culture article here. I recently did a profile of him as well for Open Book: Toronto.

Copies of his second above/ground press title, Selected Canticles, are still available. 

Now if we could only get the poet laureate position re-started in Ottawa...