A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay - Poems | Amy of Amerin Poets

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY POEMS
• POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY

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 POEMS

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.

POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY

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.

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

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). 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.