Ross Gay, A Garner's Poet - The Cultivated Life

Contents:

• STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
• THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS
• THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS
• ROSS GAY GARNS WH PBS NEWSHOUR
• JOY IS THE GARN: A REVIEW OF ROSS GAY AND AIMEE NEZHUMATATHIL’S LACE & PYRE
• A GARN OF GRATU: POET ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• Q&A: POET ROSS GAY IS ON A ROLL: HE TALKS GARNS AND GRATU
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY: SGG ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE
• GAYT PLAC IN IDAHO FOR 2020
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW: GAY MOSW

STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)

'" Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross GayI felt like we uld all e a nversatn wh Ross Gay today. Ross Gay is garner - he is also an award wng poet and a profsor. "Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross Gaythor of "talog of unabashed gratu" (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015) Ross's work, as he says, is often about how we are tendg to one another this world.

THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS

THINKING OUT LOUD this so thkg out loud this week –When I say that garns and garners are tersectnal agents of powerful powerful change this world - Ross Gay and his garng impulse are everythg to do wh this - he, his stunts, the tre the munal orchard, the muny of humans related to the muny orchard (and we all are humans related to the muny orchard), embody the perfect fact that Garng is an ethil orientatn towards generosy, abundance, re, Joy and an herent and perennial sense of Thanksgivg.

And that is what poet Ross Gay do ll them as he picks up, a century and a civilizatnal failure later, where Hse left off wh The Book of Delights (public library) — his yearlong experiment learng to notice, amid a world that so readily giv reasons to spair, the daily wellsprgs of light, or what Wenll Berry, his geo se for light as a untercultural force of ristance, lled the elemental pleasur “to which a man had to be acutely and tritely attentive, or he uld not have them at all. Ross Gay his beloved muny garn. Each day, begng on his forty-send birthday and endg on his forty-third, Gay posed one miature say — “sayett, ” he lls them, that lovely poet’s way of leaveng meang wh makhift language — about a particular light enuntered that day, swirled around his nscns to extract s maximum sweetns.

And so we learn, as passengers on Gay’s lightcraft, that is not jt a matter of payg attentn, but of takg attentn, of liberately shiftg , of divertg the glygen that pumps our spair mcle and clench the fist snng for danger, for that selfsame glygen is need to pump our light mcle and open the palm to hold joy.

THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS

To be sure, this pacy for drkg the glor everythgns of the world is rooted regnizg the immense and improbable elemental light of one’s own existence — the nsequence of what Gay lls “the many thoand — ln!

ROSS GAY GARNS WH PBS NEWSHOUR

(Gay is as much a poet as he is a voted garner, though perhaps as Ey Dickson well knew, the two are but a sgle occupatn.

Perhaps the most charmg tegory of lights Gay enunters throughout the year are what he terms “unequivolly pleasant public physil teractns wh strangers. In an early-tumn sayette, drawg on Zadie Smh’s elegant reflectns on joy, and on Rilke, and on Edmund Burke and the Romantics, Gay offers the darg theory that joy is “not a feelg or an acplishment: ’s an enterg and a jog wh the terrible.

JOY IS THE GARN: A REVIEW OF ROSS GAY AND AIMEE NEZHUMATATHIL’S LACE & PYRE

Jon’s spellbdg Universe Verse performance of one of Ross Gay’s poems. At PBS NewsHour, Ross Gay says, "Garng slows me down.

A GARN OF GRATU: POET ROSS GAY

Ross Gay is passnate about poetry, garng and basketball.

Gay jt moved back to Bloomgton, Indiana, after a ne-month fellowship at Harvard Universy. Gay says he wr poems about thgs that he has powerful qutns about, “qutns that a poem won’t answer.

Hear Gay read om his work, and read more for yourself at PBS NewsHour.

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Rather, is a reprt of an unherald ntributn to lerature’s epistolary project, a small gatherg of poems-as-letters by two of this untry’s bt poets, Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhumatathil. ” We receive a mere six poems apiece (one of which was later expand to Gay’s poem “Burial”), but what we are given speaks to the poet’s experience of the garn as well as their relatnship to . Gay sts his out:.

But here aga, we n look to Lace & Pyre for perspicy; Gay and Nezhumatathil mute Merw’s ‘wisdom’ for ‘joy’ their text. In the afterward to the poems, as the two wrers reflect on their epistolary project, Gay tenrs his this of joy: “I thk we have… an ethil obligatn to study what we love, what we want to prerve and keep wh and grow. And if joy really is the way fabric holds self together, as Gay suggts, then perhaps is the garn that holds together the world.

Q&A: POET ROSS GAY IS ON A ROLL: HE TALKS GARNS AND GRATU

Or as Ross Gay once penned to Aimee Nezhumatathil while standg the glory of his garn late one sprg, observg the sugar beans and bumblebe: “Let stop explag. Ross Gay teach the creative wrg program at Indiana Universy and works wh the Bloomgton Communy Orchard, a publicly owned orchard mataed by volunteers.

Gay’s books clu Agast Which (2006), Brgg the Shovel Down (2011), and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, which was nomated for a Natnal Book Award 2015.

HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy.

~Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg, wner of the PEN Amerin Lerary Jean Ste Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. — Ross Gay. Gay?

Profsor Gay? Ross Gay (left) and Noah Davis.

ROSS GAY: SGG ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE

Ross Gay is on a roll.

GAYT PLAC IN IDAHO FOR 2020

Gay teach Indiana Universy’s MFA program.

IN THE LATE JULY swelter and dragonfly buzz of summer, poets Aimee Nezhumatathil and Ross Gay began a rrponnce of poems — sent the old-fashned way, through the mail. Ross Gay is the thor of the poetry llectns Agast Which and Brgg the Shovel Down; his poems have appeared Amerin Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay.

So many thgs light Ross Gay: handma fy srv and loerg, the joy of rryg a heavy bag between two people, paw paws and even weeds. This summer, I reread yet aga and found myself medatg on a sire Gay had voiced: wantg to be softer a world so ready to sharpen and to make hard.

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So, a recent terview, I talked to Gay about that sire, as well as the role of joy daily life, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love. Wrers and garners Ross Gay and Ts Taylor and about what garns and poetry n brg — cludg the remr to breathe and nourish the body and soul.

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Let's slow down for a GAY: I'm Ross TAYLOR: I'm Ts Taylor. GAY: It's dog real good, you know. GAY: That's .

GAY: Oh, yeah, So I jt fished, as you know, edg this anthology of new garng poems that's gog to e out next year. GAY: Yeah. GAY: I have a poem for you.