Clarke has served on the editorial collective of "Conditions", an early lesbian publication, and has been published in numerous anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers, including "Conditions 5, The Black Women's Issue" (1979), ' (1982), ' (1984), "The Black Scholar", "The Kenyon Review", "Feminist Review of Books", "Belles Lettres", "The Gay Community News". Clarke's iconic articles, "Lesbianism: an act of resistance" and "The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community", published in "This Bridge" and "Home Girls", respectively, are often included in women studies, black studies, and English studies curricula.