"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.
"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.
