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Ellis serves as contributing editor to Callaloo and Poets & Writers magazine, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA program at Lesley University.

The event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. For more information, please consult the news release on the Smith College website or the Smith College Poetry Center website.

Link to past SC Libraries Poetry Center Readings resource pages.

Ellis' powerhouse debut collection, The Maverick Room, earned him both a Whiting Writers' Award and the 2006 John C. Zacharis First Book Award.

Recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Ellis has also published two chapbooks, The Good Junk and The Genuine Negro Hero and co-edited the anthology Standing On the Verge: Emerging Poets and edited the forthcoming Quotes Community: Notes for Black Poets.

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Biography

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Includes entry from Contemporary Authors Online, 2006.

Online Texts

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