Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator,[4] whose poems resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness.[5] His poems have appeared in magazines such as AGNI[6] Callaloo, Grand Street, Harvard Review, Tin House, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and anthologized in The Best American Poetry (1997, 2001, and 2010) and in Take Three: AGNI New Poets S