Praises for TSE and Skin Inc.

  • Ellis’s distinctive voice offers a new model for written orature, and his audience steadily widens.

    —Booklist, Patricia Monaghan

  • Ellis’s bold second collection (after The Maverick Room) constitutes an impassioned argument for revitalizing America’s calcified literary culture.

    —Fred Muratori, Cornell Univ. Lib., Ithaca, NY

  • The fine and noble tradition of protest poetry is in safe, strong hands with this latest collection from Thomas Sayers Ellis.

    —Phil Constable, New York Journal of Books

FOOTNOTES for FEET WORK


Readings, Speaking Engagements, Appearances

Visit the D.C. Poetry Tour at www.poetryfoundation.org Narrated by Elizabeth Alexander, photographs by Thomas Sayers Ellis dc-poetry-tour-tout

 

2011-2012 APPEARANCES - TBA

 

2010 APPEARANCES

Friday, October 29, 2010 - 2:00 p.m.
Reading and Conversation: Engaged Poetics Across the Big Pond 
New York University - Author/Presenter: Andy Croft, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and Aracelis Girmay Smokestack publisher and U.K. poet Andy Croft (pictured) is featured in a reading and conversation with Thomas Sayers Ellis and Aracelis Girmay. Co-sponsored with Poets House. Location: Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.
Saturday, October 30, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
The Beat: Go-Go Music from West Africa to Washington, DC
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place SE Washington, DC
Sunday, November 7, 2010 - 11:00am
Page Turner 2010 - Gag Order: Writers on What Goes Unpublished
Powerhouse Arena, Ground Floor
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 8:00pm
Jenny McKean Moore Reading: Thomas Sayers Ellis
George Washington University - Marvin Center Amphitheater Washington, DC
sunday, december 5, 2010 - 2:00pm
Readings by Thomas Sayers Ellis and Cave Canem poets.
This annual Cave Canem poetry reading at the Pratt features Thomas Sayers Ellis reading from his new collection, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems. Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator, one whose poems "resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness." His first full-length collection, The Maverick Room, won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Ellis teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, and he is a faculty member of Cave Canem. Other Cave Canem poets who will be reading with Ellis: R. Dwayne Betts, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Bettina Judd, Kateema Lee, Robin Coste Lewis, Carlo Paul, Kamau Rucker, and Lamar Wilson. Hosted by Reginald Harris of Poets House.

Central Library - Poe Room, Baltimore, Maryland
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