Month: August 2010

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Graywolf Press and CAS51 invite you to join us as we celebrate the publication of Skin, Inc.

Celebrate Thomas Sayers Ellis’s second collection of poetry,”a complex, searing look at the state of black identity in America.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Graywolf Press and CAS51 invite you to join us as we celebrate the publication of

SKIN, INC.
Identity Repair Poems
by
Thomas Sayers Ellis


Sunday, September 5

6:00 PM

CAS51

510 Randolph Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20011
(By subway: Georgia Ave-Petworth Metro Station)
Following a welcome from CAS51 co-founder Darryl Atwell, Ellis will give a brief reading and singer Carolyn Malachi will perform Ellis’s
“The Pronoun-Vowel…”.
Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Books will be available for purchase.

Thomas Sayers EllisThomas Sayers Ellis was born and raised in Washington, D.C. His previous poetry collection, The Maverick Room, was awarded the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. Ellis teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, and he is a faculty member of Cave Canem. A photographer and poet, he currently divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.
Author photo (c) Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Skin, Inc
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Everywhere With Roy Lewis events…


Please join us for the final two public programs for Everywhere With Roy Lewis
On Exhibit through Saturday, September 11, 2010 at PGAAMCC’s Gallery 110
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm &
Thursdays 10am-7pm

As We See It: A Conversation with Black Photographers
Thursday, August 26, 7-9pm
and
Preserving Your Family’s Photographic Legacy
Thursday, September 2, 6-8pm

Please RSVP!
Parking is limited. Street Parking Available. Additional Parking available at the Bunker Hill Fire Station, 3716 Rhode Island Avenue, Brentwood, MD 20722— cross the street and walk 1 ½ blocks north to the Gateway Arts Center.