The Roll Call
Thomas Sayers Ellis, “The Roll Call” from The Maverick Room. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Sayers Ellis. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press.
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Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis
Subjects Arts & Sciences, Music, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
Biography
Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room (Graywolf, 2005) and a chaplet, Song On (WinteRed Press, 2005) and his interview with Bootsy Collins appears in Waxpoetics #18. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Lesley University low-residency Creative Writing Program.
Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis
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SUBJECT Arts & Sciences, Music, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
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