Arts dean at Regina university sorry poet vilified over lecture controversy
(WorldNews Canada)

REGINA — Emails show the University of Regina’s dean of arts told George Elliott Clarke that he was sorry the acclaimed poet had been vilified over his relationship with the killer of an Indigenous woman. They also show Clarke was hopeful he would be invited back to the school someday. Clarke, a former poet laureate of Canada, cancelled his lecture at the university in January after news reports that he was connected to killer-turned-poet Stephen Brown. “I just wanted to take a moment, Dr. Clarke, to say how sorry I am that it has come to this,” Richard Kleer wrote in an email to Clarke’s literary agent on Jan.3. The email...