Why You Should Read Ross Gay This Natnal Poetry Month

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Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. He earned a BA om Lafayette College, an MFA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD English om…

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ROSS GAY

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. * ross gay plum tree *

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. Let's slow down for a GAY: I'm Ross TAYLOR: I'm Ts Taylor.

GAY: It's dog real good, you know.

ROSS GAY’S ‘UNABASHED GRATU’ SURG WH LIFE

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POEM OF THE DAY: ROSS GAY

Poet and profsor Ross Gay reads om 'talog of unabashed gratu,' wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award. * ross gay plum tree *

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.

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

On the Co Swch podst, Ross Gay reflects on his 2019 llectn The Book of Delights, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love." * ross gay plum tree *

GAY: Yeah.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ ROSS GAY THIS NATNAL POETRY MONTH

In praise of the joyful and very sprg-appropriate poetry of Ross Gay * ross gay plum tree *

GAY: I have a poem for you. Poets and garners Ross Gay and Ts Taylor.

Ross Gay.

Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh.

ROSS GAY: SGG ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE

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). On a sprg night Bloomgton, Indiana, Ross Gay is plantg young lettuc. Gay’s iend Don is eatg sweet potato biscus out of the pan as they talk the kchen, listeng to Na Simone and walkg arm arm down the block and past the graveyard, not long before he was murred.

In os to buttong and unbuttong his shirt and drkg water om his hands, Gay is talkg about love and the loss of people he lov, and the anger and fear and tiredns he feels as a black man this untry. Gay chose the tle of the book to hold open thankfulns.

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