John (Jack) Clarke

John (Jack) Clarke: was a poet, jazz musician, and scholar of William Blake and Charles Olson. As director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover), he and Albert Glover oversaw the publication of A Curriculum of the Soul, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) a serial epic homage to Olson, based on his poem of the same name, which gathers the work of 28 of Olson’s companions in poetry. He received the Ohioanna Award and a NYFA Fellowship.