Poems Curated by Ross Gay | Amy of Amerin Poets

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ROSS GAY

Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. Gay is the -thor, wh Aimee Nezhumatathil, of the chapbook Lace and Pyre: Letters om Two Garns (2014), and wh Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., River (2014). 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 is an important ntemporary poet. Gay has one numero poetic awards cludg the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award.

‘A Small Needful Fact’ by Ross Gay is a powerful poem that prents an image of hope and bety after a loss. This is one of Ross Gay's bt-known and monly read poems.

ROSS GAY POEMS

Explore more poems om Ross Gay. Ross Gay’s ‘Endg the Estrangement’ is a poem pturg a speaker’s longg to be wh his mother who has died. Love, I’m Done Wh You by Ross Gay explor a breakup, the poet realizg how bad their relatnship was once.

Ross Gay. Copyright © 2015 by Ross Gay. Ross Gay was born on Augt 1, 1974, Youngstown, Oh.

Gay is the thor of four llectns of poetry: Be Holdg (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2020); Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award; Brgg the Shovel Down (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2011); and Agast Which (Cavankerry Prs, 2006).

POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY

Gay is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze Some Call Ball’, and an edor of the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs. Gay’s honors clu fellowships om Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Wrers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundatn. Gay served as the Gut Edor for Poem-a-Day October 2018.

Ross Gay's books of poems clu Agast Which (CavanKerry Prs, 2006) and Brgg the Shovel Down (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2011). Ross Gay received his M.

ROSS GAY

A "Mi-Review" of Ross Gay's Featured Poems by Contributg-Edor Zachary Macholz. Ross Gay’s poetry is not like most of the ntemporary poetry you may have read. Wrg directly about sometim bizarre stori, Gay choos to tell the earnt tth, seems, each of his poems, and giv that tth momentum through the e of heavily strsed l, rich assonance and alleratn, a willgns to experiment wh the purpose of the lear un, and an unniably fect love for what he se, spe—or perhaps bee of—all s strangens.

“Nursery, ” the excerpt om Brgg the Shovel Down, monstrat the way Gay lik to play wh our expectatns for leatn and punctuatn. Ross Gay is a poet ntrol of his l. In “Glass, ” Gay aga plays wh the le and challeng s tegry.

” There’s also a wonrful rhythm to the l, built on the terplay of le breaks and rhym: “the day after the night / she woke aquake wh sweat, / her hand thst toward the dark // like a bld man bt: / her dreams of drought and plagu / of fli and wolv wh his face…” Or later: “the bottle to shards / and the ln shards / wh their mother’s stone mortar // and ptle still smellg / fatly of black pepper / and thyme even and even more…” We n also see, particularly the last two exampl, Gay’s love of packg l que full wh strsed syllabl. “The Ln and the Gazelle, ” when nsired the ntext of the other poems, monstrat Gay’s versatily. Though the form has changed and the subject matter remas a ltle weird or even disturbg (“…and if your father never entered a dnken // rage and emptied his gun to the fay dog…”), Gay repetn and rhyme to keep the poem movg forward.

Ross Gay’s work is tly pleasg, both psychilly and to the ear. Instead, Ross Gay is a poet who knows the world timately and lov passnately, even—and sometim pecially—s flts. A Review of Ross Gay's Brgg the Shovel Down by Thomas Devany, first published The Philalphia Inquirer.