John Clarke (poet)
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John "Jack" Clarke was an American poet.
A noted poet, jazz musician and scholar of William Blake
and Charles Olson
, John "Jack" Clarke was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures, among them "From Feathers To Iron" (1987) and "In The Analogy," published posthumously in 1997. The latter title, a collection of more than 200 sonnets, stands as the culmination of Clarke's lifework in poetry.
As director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover), he oversaw the series A Curriculum of the Soul. He taught for 29 years at the State University of New York at Buffalo
. From 1989 to 1991 he edited intent: letter of talk, thinking, and document. In 1989 he was awarded the Ohioanna Poetry Award from the Ohio Library Association (Clarke was a native of Ohio) and in 1991, the prestigious Artists Fellowship for Poetry presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
A noted poet, jazz musician and scholar of William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
and Charles Olson
Charles Olson
Charles Olson , was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance...
, John "Jack" Clarke was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures, among them "From Feathers To Iron" (1987) and "In The Analogy," published posthumously in 1997. The latter title, a collection of more than 200 sonnets, stands as the culmination of Clarke's lifework in poetry.
As director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover), he oversaw the series A Curriculum of the Soul. He taught for 29 years at the State University of New York at Buffalo
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore in 1846. UB has multiple campuses...
. From 1989 to 1991 he edited intent: letter of talk, thinking, and document. In 1989 he was awarded the Ohioanna Poetry Award from the Ohio Library Association (Clarke was a native of Ohio) and in 1991, the prestigious Artists Fellowship for Poetry presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts.