Clark is a professor of writing and poet-in-residence at Grand Valley. Each fall since 2002, she has organized Poetry Night. The free event invites the community for an evening with Pulitzer Prize quality poets, including C.K. Williams and Philip Levine this year, on October 12. The larger community has recognized the programs and talents at Grand Valley. The Grand Rapids Area Humanities Council recently named Clark as the new poet laureate for the city.
Clark's books of poetry include "My Father on a Bicycle" (Michigan State University Press, 2005) and "North of Wondering" (1999) which won the first book competition sponsored by Women in Literature, Inc. Clark is also the co-editor of an anthology of contemporary women writers, "Worlds in Our Words," published by Blair Press/Prentice Hall. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry Magazine, Slate, New England Review and Seattle Review.
She is the recipient of a Creative Artist Grant from ArtServe Michigan for 2003. In 1997 her poem "The Only Body" won Mississippi Review's Poetry Prize. She has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a resident at The MacDowell Colony at Ragdale, and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
