So this theft of the ‘Flat Langston’ in DC has turned into this whole big thing.
Turns out Thomas Sayers Ellis did it. Washington Post article here.
Flat Langston debate at Poetry Foundation.
Randall Horton comments on his Facebook page.
Sandra Beasley‘s Chicks Dig Poetry has some things to say, and points to Fred Joiner.
Me, I’ll say this: I find Ellis’s whole project, from poetry to writerly stance and his activism and photography and love for music, completely engrossing. He’s not afraid to be contrarian, and I especially love when it seems like he just wants to, frankly, eff things up.* I am insanely jealous of the way he puts together poems. Since I make everything about me, I admire how he can navigate being perhaps cantankerous with being inclusive and accepting, and I can’t stop being cantankerous even if I tried and I also love being around people. Those two elements seem opposed sometimes, right? But Ellis pulls it off. And even in this Flat Langston thing, he’s bringing people together while at the same time getting people worked up. Anyway.
*I’m up for tenure people. Give me a break.
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- Jordan Davis on Thomas Sayers Ellis in The Nation. (wewhoareabouttodie.com)
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