Clarence White

Clarence White is a writer, editor, typewriter poet, curator, arts administrator and a former bookseller at the Hungry Mind Bookstore. His publications are included in several editions of the Saint Paul Almanac, Suisun Valley Review, The Cortland Review, and Public Art Review, and his essay “Smart Enough for Ford” appears in the anthology Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. He works in essay when he believes that conversation is possible and in poetry when he is less hopeful. He was the co-curator of the 2016 and 2017 Banfill-Locke Reading Series and Silverwood Park’s 2014 Art on Foot. He is a past Givens Foundation Retreat Fellow and was a finalist for mnartists.org’s flash fiction contest miniStories. He teaches at Minneapolis College and ice skating with dance company Brownbody. He is the Associate Director of the East Side Freedom Library and lives in Saint Paul.