Rev. Dr. Clarke Dewey Wells (1930-2006), was a Unitarian Universalist minister, chaplain, a poet and essayist, and a professor of writing. He graduated the University of Chicago and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and was ordained in 1956. He ministered for fifty years in cities across the country. During the Civil Rights era Clarke Wells was an activist; he was among ministers who went to Selma to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965. Dr. Wells was with his colleague, James Reeb, and his wife, Marie, at a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama when Rev. Reeb (also a Unitarian minister) died after being attacked while participating in the struggle for Civil Rights. He served as Vice President of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (following merger of Unitarians and Universalists in 1961). Dr. Wells taught classes in poetry, creative writing and the works of William Shakespeare. He authored four books of poetry and essays.