Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities

3 Bartlett Street, CAC
New Brunswick, NJ
08901

Phone: 732-932-1711
Fax: 732-932-3123

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About the Director

Cheryl Clarke

cclarke@rci.rutgers.edu

Since 1992, Cheryl Clarke has been the Director of the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and LGBT Concerns and has specific responsibility for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning student life at Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus. She is also a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She has been a member of the campus community since 1969. She received her B.A. from Howard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Rutgers. She is a poet and the author of four books of poetry since 1983: Narratives: Poems In The Tradition Of Black Women, Living As A Lesbian, Humid Pitch, and Experimental Love. Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications since 1981, among them:

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women Of Color (Anzaldua and Moraga, eds.)
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Smith. ed.)
Conditions: A Magazine of Writing by Women with an Emphasis on Writing by Lesbians
Feminist Studies
The Black Scholar
Gay Community News
The Advocate
African-American Review
Blue Stones And Salt Hay: An Anthology Of New Jersey Poets (Lewis, ed.)
Gay And Lesbian Poetry In Our Time (Morse and Larkin, eds.)
Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (Nestle, ed.)
Radical America
Callaloo
Theorizing Back Feminisms (James and Busia, eds.)
Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks and Gays Fighting Oppression (Brandt, ed.)
Black Like Us: A Century of Black Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Fiction (Wiese, et. al., eds.)
Long Shot Magazine: The Politcs Issue
Bloom: A Journal of Writing by Lesbian and Gay Writers.
I Do, I Don’t: Queers on Marriage (Wharton, et. al., eds.)

She was an editor of Conditions from 1981-1990. Clarke’s poetry is distinguished by its direct explorations of the poetics and politics of sexuality. Her book, After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement was published by Rutgers University Press in January of 2005. In 2006, Carroll and Graf will publish The Days of Good Looks, her selected poems and essays. She is also completing a new manuscript of poems, Corridors of Nostalgia, also to be published in 2006.

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