Poet who edited work of convicted killer should speak: University of Regina

The University of Regina says it would be against its principles to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with a convicted killer of an Indigenous woman. Richard Kleer, who is dean of the university's faculty of arts, says George Elliott Clarke was invited to deliver the Woodrow Lloyd Lecture later this month. Kleer says some have taken issue with the fact that Clarke has edited poetry by Stephen Brown, who changed his name from Steven Kummerfield. Kummerfield was convict