S5 E3 George Elliott Clarke

Published: June 4, 2020, 3:38 p.m.

Season 5, Episode 3.

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Engaging and reflective.

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GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE'S writing is always a reflection of his personality: charged with energy and imagination that can't help but engage you. In Portia White: A Portrait in Words, his subject's international successes and near-crushing personal reversals fuel poems that illuminate the life of the great Nova Scotia-born contralto.