MIchael Ellis

Leaving Langston MIchael Ellis

Poet Michael Ellis pays a Legendary tribute to Langston Hughes as he merges into a poet of his own and into a people's poet Laureate. This book also celebrates Gwendolyn Brooks and Miles Davis. This book is a lyrical flight from Slavery to the Renaissance to the South. It also has a tribute poem toone of the youngest African Americans to be wrongfully lynched. The book is a relay of the Blues fromlegendary poets to Michael Ellis who has waited for the baton.