"What a wonderful artistic experience The Story of Andro is! You have a truly remarkable, compelling voice...I particularly like how well the music counterpoints your voice and theme."
—Joseph Lisowski, Ph.D.
Welcome. Here I try to survey over forty years of writing and performing.
—R. Virgil Ellis
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"The story is by turns sinister and jocular, but always intelligent, playful, and entertaining; Ellis's delivery likewise ranges from cheerful to menacing to cocky to evil, and his poetry, with its careful attention to sound and sonic effects, is well-suited to performance."
—Wendy Vardaman, Ph.D.
Garrison Keillor reads a poem from
Bone Flute on The Writer's Almanac
for the week of October 29, 2007
Published 2007 by Parallel Press...
Ellis is a great punster, a turner of words and phrases, a craftsman, a carpenter, shaping shaping, shaping.
—Helen Ruggieri
Cezanne's Carrot awards editor's prize to
CANTO 27 This fabric canvassing the wind and nominates it for a
Pushcart Prize.
The Cambridge Review publishes three cantos in issue #14 Winter 2007-2008. (Click button for audio).
Performed by Ron Ellis and Al Jewer
on April 14, 1992, UW-Whitewater.
"Golgonooza," a poem excerpted from Canto 7 of The Tenting Cantos.
"Jellystone," the Foreword to The Tenting Cantos.
"Introduction," wherein I talk about the poem "Golgonooza" and its relation to The Tenting Cantos.
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