KC CLARKE
KC (Kenneth) Clarke is the Chicago based Director of Development for The Ohio State University, serving Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Clarke has served as Executive Director of The Poetry Center of Chicago, a Development Officer at the Ohio Historical Society, and the coordinator for the Greater Columbus Arts Council's Columbus Arts Festival. In 2003, Clarke was awarded Columbia College Chicago's Paul Berger Arts Entrepreneurship Award for outstanding not-for-profit management. In 2004, he was appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley to the Advisory Board of the Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2004, New City Chicago placed Clarke at #13 in their annual Lit50 list, for producing readings by Billy Corgan and Lucinda and Miller Williams. In 2005, he was place at #23 for securing The Poetry Center's archive at The University of Chicago Library. Among other things, Clarke was the curator of The Poetry Center's Reading Series, The Poetry Center's broadsides from 2001-2005. Clarke also curated the Poetry Center and Lightology Poetry Billboard Series at the corner of Chicago and Wells in Chicago, featuring short (but very large) poems by Mark Strand, Li-Young Lee and Lisel Mueller. He also published the work of thousands of inner city Chicago public school students in four substantial anthologies. Clarke is the director of reVerse, a sound, music and poetry experiment, he serves on The Poetry Board of Three Oaks, Michigan and is a poet, photographer and a ceramic artist.
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