In praise of the joyful and very sprg-appropriate poetry of Ross Gay
Contents:
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY’S ‘UNABASHED GRATU’ SURG WH LIFE
- POEM OF THE DAY: ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- WHY YOU SHOULD READ ROSS GAY THIS NATNAL POETRY MONTH
- ROSS GAY: SGG ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE
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.
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.
ROSS GAY’S ‘UNABASHED GRATU’ SURG WH LIFE
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… * 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. 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).
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 *
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.
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 chose the tle of the book to hold open thankfulns.
Michael Dumanis, the director of poetry at Benngton and the curator of this sprg’s poetry seri, first fell to Gay’s work years ago a bookstore Cleveland, Oh. He took Gay’s first book, Agast Which, off the shelf and stood amazed.
He remembers llg a close iend who might have met Gay and sayg tell me about him — I n’t believe the poems I’m readg. As he talks wh his class, Dumanis hears anticipatn for Gay’s vis, and his name rurfac nversatns.
WHY YOU SHOULD READ ROSS GAY THIS NATNAL POETRY MONTH
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Williams has tght Gay’s work. Dumanis felt wh wonr Sorrow Is Not my Name, Gay’s send book, Brgg the Shovel Down, as the poem nam some of the world’s thoands of “naturally occurrg sweet thgs. Gay has recently fished his newt project: A Book of Delights.
As he imag the book, Gay turns over the material reali and the psychic and spirual pths of land … enomic value, stabily, a place to belong. “What a lucky job to give nam to u, ” Gay said, savorg some om his talog, Ashmead’s kernel, moonglow.
ROSS GAY: SGG ABOUT PLANTS AND PEOPLE
—om Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, Ptsburgh Poetry Seri (2015).
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. 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.