Queens Library Hosts Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis

April 23, 2007 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Queens Library Honors Commons

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!