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Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet of ‘Percussive Prosody,’ Dies at 61

A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.

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