ABOUT — ROSS GAY

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
• AKIRA ROSS' PARTNER, FATHER SAY SHE WAS KILLED BY STRANGER CEDAR PARK BEE SHE WAS GAY
• ROSS GAY • WED, APR 12, 2023

ROSS GAY

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.

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.

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

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. Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy?

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POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW

CNN spoke wh Gay prr to his new book’s release. Sce Mathews, who jok, "I've been gay sce birth, " first appeared as Ross the Intern on The Tonight Show Wh Jay Leno, 's been part of his missn to be visible and reprent for those g up behd him. "I remember beg a kid a farm town and realizg I was gay and then askg myself, What do a gay grown-up person look like?

"I remember thkg, God, I have to s down and talk to him bee he knows I'm gay, jt bee, you know, I'm on TV. "But I wonr if he's ever seen a gay uple or somethg. But both her father and her partner said Tuday was bee she was gay.

AKIRA ROSS' PARTNER, FATHER SAY SHE WAS KILLED BY STRANGER CEDAR PARK BEE SHE WAS GAY

He said wns told him the man arrted for his dghter's killg, Bradley Stanford, had yelled gay slurs at her at the gas statn before the shootg. "She gets out of the r, and he starts llg her gay slurs for no reason. Stanford yelled gay slurs at Ross before Ross walked to the gas statn nvenience store behd her, Tanya iend stayed the r while Ross and Tanya entered the store, Tanya said the iend texted her that Stanford was wavg around a gun outsi the store.

Here's what we ' mother had died a r wreck Manor about 2½ years ago, so Ross also wanted to start a bs to help children wh the loss of fay members, Hill never exprsed any fears about her safety as a gay woman, her father said. Fay of a woman gunned down outsi an At-area gas statn last week say the murr should be vtigated as a hate crime bee she was gayCEDAR PARK, Texas -- A man police say gunned down a woman outsi an At-area gas statn last week has been charged wh murr, and the woman's fay says the killg should be vtigated as a hate crime as she was targeted bee she was Ross, 24, was fatally shot Friday night while she pumped gas Cedar Park, 20 (32 kilometers) north of At, acrdg to the Cedar Park police.

But Ross' partner and her father both told the At Amerin-Statman that Stanford yelled gay slurs before openg fire.

ROSS GAY • WED, APR 12, 2023

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