St. John's University
Libraries,
St. John's College English Department
and the Honors Program
are proud to present
Thomas Sayers
Ellis
Thomas Sayers 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 The Best
American Poetry, 1997 and
2001. His first full
collection, The Maverick Room, was
published by Graywolf Press in 2005 and awarded the 2006 John C.
Zacharis First Book Award. An associate professor of creative
writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of the
Lesley University low-residence MFA program (Cambridge, MA).
His Breakfast and Blacklist: Notesfor Black
Poets is forthcoming from the University of Michigan
Press Poets of Poetry
Series.
Mr. Ellis will read his poetry and
participate in a Q&A session on
Monday, April 23,
2007
Honors Commons
(First Floor, St. Augustine Hall)
12:15-1:15pm
Refreshments will be
served!