thenation.com Most poets are still just finding out about their stories in their second books, but Ellis is not most poets. The Maverick Room came in at 121 pages, twice the length of the average collection of poems; so Skin,… Continue Reading…
A Brief Analysis of Maria Izaurralle’s Photo of RE – The Remix [A prose-poem by Thomas Sayers Ellis]
September 6, 2012
Hard to resist a good photo even if the symbolism surrounding the image is better than the actual aesthetic value of the photo. And we writers have to keep the scene honest. We are here to lift it, to see… Continue Reading…
September 6, 2012
By Thomas Sayers Ellis I grew up on 7th and O Streets, NW so the sight of people dancing in the rain, on 7th and T Streets, NW, while Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go, was having a part of… Continue Reading…
September 6, 2012
The Whole Block Be Hot for Béla Dona, TSE 2009
September 6, 2012
It all came back to me the other night when i was backstage at the 9:30 Club in the dressing room with the original members of Trouble Funk. I hadn’t seen many of them in years, especially James Avery who… Continue Reading…