Thomas Sayers Ellis

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Name Thomas Ellis		Role Poet

Education Brown University (1995), Harvard University Awards Whiting Awards, John C. Zacharis First Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Maverick Room, Skin - Inc: Identity Repair P, The genuine Negro hero, Standing on the Verge: E Similar People Major Jackson, Natasha Trethewey, Cornelius Eady, Toi Derricotte, Terrance Hayes

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Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is a poet and photographer. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and also, until 2012, at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Life

He was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1988 he co-founded the Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an organization that celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color. Ellis received his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995.

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Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator, whose poems "resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness." His poems have appeared in magazines such as AGNI Callaloo, Grand Street, Harvard Review, Tin House, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and anthologized in The Best American Poetry (1997, 2001, and 2010) and in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series (Graywolf Press, 1996), an anthology series featuring the work of three emerging poets in each volume. He has received fellowships and grants from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Ohio Arts Council, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.

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Ellis is a contributing editor to Callaloo and a consulting editor to A Public Space. He compiled and edited Quotes Community: Notes for Black Poets (University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series).

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His first full-length collection, The Maverick Room, was published by Graywolf Press and won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares.

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The book takes as its subject the social, geographical and historical neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., bringing different tones of voice to bear on the various quadrants of the city.

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He is also the author of a chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, 2001) and the chaplet Song On (Wintered Press 2005).

Awards

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2005: Whiting Award

2006 John C. Zacharis First Book Award

Works

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Skin Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. Graywolf Press. 2010. ISBN 1-55597-567-4.

The maverick room: poems. Graywolf Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-55597-414-5.

The genuine Negro hero. Kent State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-87338-704-0.

Thomas Sayers Ellis, Larissa Szporluk, Joe Osterhaus (1996). Askold Melnyczuk, ed. Take three. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-239-4. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)

Anthologies

Camille T. Dungy, ed. (2009). "The Market". Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3431-8.

Nikky Finney, ed. (2007). "Afronauts". The ringing ear: Black poets lean south. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2925-3.

William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). "Zapruder; View of the Library of Congress; Ways to be Black in a Poem". Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6.

Charles H. Rowell, ed. (2002). "Fatal April". Making Callaloo: 25 years of Black literature. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-28898-3.

Michael Collier, ed. (2000). "Practice: For Derek Walcott". The new American poets. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.

Maggie Anderson, David Hassler, eds. (1999). "Stayed Back". Learning by heart: contemporary American poetry about school. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-663-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

James Tate, David Lehman, eds. (1997). "Atomic Bride". The Best American Poetry 1997. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-81452-0. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

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