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Thomas Sayers Ellis

Award-winning Poet & Photographer

Award-winning Poet & Photographer

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New York, NY, USA
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Thomas Sayers Ellis Biography

Thomas Sayers Ellis is an award-winning photographer and poet. His first, full collection, The Maverick Room, for which he received a Mrs. Giles Whiting Writers’ Award and the 2006 John C. Zacharis First Book Award, was published by Graywolf Press in 2005, . The collection is “marked by inner-city youth culture energy that is part lyrical narrative, part “Parliament Funkadelic,” a blend of chaos and control through the sheer and simple power of words” (Midwest Review). His most recent collection is Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf, 2010), including his own photographs. He is also the author of The Good Junk (Take Three #1, Graywolf 1996); a chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, 2001); and the chaplet Song On (WinteRed Press 2005). His Breakfast and Blackfist: Notes for Black Poets is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry Series. He is a contributing editor to Callaloo and Poets and Writers magazine.

Mr. Ellis co-founded The Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1988 and earned an MFA from Brown University in 1995. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry; Grand Street; Tin House; Ploughshares; and Best American Poetry, 1997, 2001 and 2010. He has received fellowships and grants from The Fine Arts Work Center, the Ohio Arts Council, Yaddo, and The MacDowell Colony. In 2015 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry. As photographer, Ellis has collaborated with Elizabeth Alexander and The Poetry Foundation to create the virtual Washington DC poetry tour. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Mass.

Thomas Sayers Ellis Speaking Topics

  • An Evening with Thomas Sayers Ellis

  • Heroes are Gang Leaders: Spoken Word and Jazz Concert

Thomas Sayers Ellis Videos

  • The Writer's Block: A Video Q&A with Thomas Sayers Ellis
  • Thomas Sayers Ellis - All Their Stanzas Look Alike

Thomas Sayers Ellis Books

  • Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
    Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
  • The Maverick Room: Poems
    The Maverick Room: Poems
  • The Genuine Negro Hero (Wick Chapbook Series 2)
    The Genuine Negro Hero (Wick Chapbook Series 2)
  • Take Three: Agni New Poets Series:  1 (The Agni New Poets Series , No 1) (Vol 1)
    Take Three: Agni New Poets Series: 1 (The Agni New Poets Series , No 1) (Vol 1)
  • [(The Maverick Room: Poems)] [Author: Thomas Sayers Ellis] published on (January, 2005)
    [(The Maverick Room: Poems)] [Author: Thomas Sayers Ellis] published on (January, 2005)

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Thomas Sayers Ellis is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as An Evening with Thomas Sayers Ellis and Heroes are Gang Leaders: Spoken Word and Jazz Concert. The estimated speaking fee range to book Thomas Sayers Ellis for your event is available upon request. Thomas Sayers Ellis generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are . Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Thomas Sayers Ellis for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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