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Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College〔(Sarah Lawrence College > Graduate Studies in Writing Faculty )〕 in Yonkers, New York, and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. ==Life== He was raised in Washington, D.C.〔(''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'' >Vol. 7 No. 3, Summer 2006 > Thomas Sayers Ellis )〕 and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1988 he co-founded the Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an organization that celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color.〔(Academy of American Poets > A Brief Guide to the Dark Room Collective )〕 Ellis received his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995. Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator,〔(Bios of 2005 Whiting Writer's Award Recipients )〕 whose poems "resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness."〔(''AGNI Online'' > ''Notes Toward a New Duty Now for the Future: An Interview with Thomas Sayers Ellis'' > by Kelsea Habecker Smith )〕 His poems have appeared in magazines such as ''AGNI''〔(''AGNI Online'' > Author Bibliography: Thomas Sayers Ellis )〕 ''Callaloo'', ''Grand Street, Harvard Review, Tin House, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art,'' and anthologized in ''The Best American Poetry'' (1997, 2001, and 2010) and in ''Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series'' (Graywolf Press, 1996), an anthology series featuring the work of three emerging poets in each volume. He has received fellowships and grants from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Ohio Arts Council, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.〔(Graywolf Press Website > Author Page: Thomas Sayers Ellis )〕 Thomas Sayers Ellis is a contributing editor to ''Callaloo'' and a consulting editor to ''A Public Space''. He compiled and edited ''Quotes Community: Notes for Black Poets'' (University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series).〔(BlueFlower Arts > Author's Booking Agent > Author Page )〕 His first full-length collection, ''The Maverick Room'', was published by Graywolf Press and won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from ''Ploughshares.''〔(''Ploughshares'' > Authors & Articles > ''Postscripts: Zacharis Award Winner Thomas Sayers Ellis'' > by Don Lee Winter 2006 -07 Issue )〕 The book takes as its subject the social, geographical and historical neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., bringing different tones of voice to bear on the various quadrants of the city.〔(Bios of 2005 Whiting Writer's Award Recipients )〕 He is also the author of a chapbook ''The Genuine Negro Hero'' (Kent State University Press, 2001) and the chaplet ''Song On'' (Wintered Press 2005).〔(Wintered Press Blog: Excerpt from ''Song On'' > By Thomas Sayers Ellis )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Sayers Ellis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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