Ross Gay | Poetry Foundatn

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
• GAY ELLENSBURG (KTAS COUNTY, WASHGTON)
• CWU TO HOST AWARD-WNG POET ROSS GAY FOR NEA BIG READ EVENT SERI
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• THE ARCHIVE PROJECT - ROSS GAY: EVERYBODY READS 2021
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'

ROSS GAY

Sprg 2023January 8 Benef readg w poet John Smh Uned Methodist Church Frenchtown, NJJanuary 11 Readg for Illois Librari Virtual Event More rmatnJanuary 30 Youngstown Live/d Readg wh Ross Gay & Rochelle Hurt Virtual Event More rmatnFebary 3 Behd the Book Carmel Clay Library Carmel, IN More rmatnFebary 6 Seattle Arts & Lectur Seattle, WA More rmatnFebary 8 Readg for The Care Center Virtual Event More rmatnFebary 9 Readg for Cornell Universy Itha, NY More rmatnFebary 16 Talk at the Universy of Kansas Lawrence, KS More rmatnFebary 21 Readg at Try Universy San Anton, TXFebary 22 Readg at the Universy of Hoton-Downtown Hoton, TXFebary 23 Readg at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center Dallas, TXMarch 4 – 5 Tucson Ftival of Books Tucson, AZ More rmatnMarch 8The Hearth & Home LectureThe Merntile LibraryCcnati, OHMore rmatnMarch 9 The Axton Visg Wrer Seri Universy of Louisville Louisville, KYMarch 14 One Book Read Wt Kentucky Communy & Technil College Paduh, KY More rmatnMarch 17 Children’s Summ Kids Common San Jose, CA March 21 Bookshop Santa Cz wh Chris Mattgly Santa Cz, CA More rmatnMarch 23 Sat Elizabeth Universy Morristown, NJMore rmatnMarch 25 Virgia Ftival of the Book Charlottville, VA More rmatnMarch 27 Hampn-Sydney College Hampn Sydney, VirgiaMarch 30 Big Read Miami Miami, FLApril 2 Orange County Library Big Read Orlando, FL More rmatnApril 4 Wre Like Us!

Much of Ross Gay's poetry is ground his love of nature and garng. Over the next several weeks, the Ellensburg muny will e together exploratn of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, an award-wng llectn of poetry by Ross Gay.

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

The event seri, part of the Natnal Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read program and orchtrated by CWU Librari, will feature two talks by Gay and will draw on Ellensburg’s abundant nnectns to s natural surroundgs. Catalog of Unabashed Gratu explor the joys, sorrows, and blsgs of life om Gay’s perspective as a poet, muny anizer, avid garner, and foundg board member of the Bloomgton Communy Orchard. Two of the events—“Strangers Maybe Never Aga: Knowg and Wrg Wilson Creek” and “Strangers Maybe Never Aga: Wrg Os To Urban Wilds”—are led by naturalists om the Ktas Environmental Edutn Network (KEEN), as well as wrer and poet WLS (the pen name of Wendy Lee Spaček), who studied wh Gay at Indiana Universy.

” Gay will give two talks Wednday, May 3.

GAY ELLENSBURG (KTAS COUNTY, WASHGTON)

Fd out more rmatn about the Ln Rock readg wh Ross Gay here. The selectn for Multnomah County Library’s muny readg project, Everybody Reads, is acclaimed thor and poet Ross Gay and his llectn of says, The Book of year, partnership wh the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundatn, Lerary Arts prents the culmatg event of the program—an thor lecture.

M (PDT) more about Ross Gay, and check out all the Library’s addnal programmg, before the event! WATCH: Ross Gay reads excerpts om The Book of Delights. WATCH: Gay discs The Book of Delights wh PBS Books at the 2019 AWP Conference Portland, Oregon.

CWU TO HOST AWARD-WNG POET ROSS GAY FOR NEA BIG READ EVENT SERI

In addn to wrg poetry and says, Gay is a sports fanatic and keen garner. In this terview wh PEN Ameri, Gay talks about his current obssns, as well as what he se as his rponsibily as a wrer.

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Ross Gay is an award-wng poet, creative wrg profsor, and keen orchardist and garner.

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

Born Youngstown, Oh, Gay grew up the Philalphia, Pennsylvania suburbs. Gay reflects, “I wasn’t dog well school, and I had an English teacher who uld probably see that I was not tuned .

Gay disvered a powerful outlet wrg poetry: “I was fely feelg alienated var ways, and feelg some unarticulated rage and sorrow about a number of thgs. ” Gay went on to earn an MA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD English om Temple Universy.

Gay has published three poetry llectns: Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, which won the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Award, and was a falist for the Natnal Book Award and an NAACP Image Award. Wh this llectn, Gay asks, “What is the practice of lookg slowly and tensely at our liv? Smh praised the llectn thly: “Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonr at every turn, bolsterg my belief the untls small miracl that surround .

THE ARCHIVE PROJECT - ROSS GAY: EVERYBODY READS 2021

Lookg toward the future, Gay not that, as a wrer, “My rponsibily now feels to be, among two thoand other thgs, to explore what is lovely and necsary and to be adored and red for and held up. Drawg on Gay’s lifelong love of sports, the poem is an o to the legendary basketball player Juli Ervg—known as Dr.

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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.

ROSS MATHEWS: GAY PEOPLE 'WANTED ME OFF TV'

Your browser do not support the d Gay (left), Lidia Ynavch (right)Natasha Komoda / Natasha Komoda, Andrew KovalevOn this episo of “Lerary Arts: The Archive Project, ” we brg you wrer Ross Gay, thor of “The Book of Delights. ” We hosted Gay the culmatg event of Multnomah County Library’s 2021 Everybody Reads program—an annual shared readg experience that clus cy-wi events for rears of all ag. This year, bee of the public health rtrictns, we brought Ross Gay to Portland virtually.

He gave an credible lecture and then engaged a thoughtful, funny, and heartfelt nversatn wh Oregon-based wrer Lidia his talk, Ross Gay tak back to his hardscrabble childhood Philalphia and trac his g-of-age story om newspaper boy to ternatnally regnized poet and wrer. “The Book of Delights, ” an say llectn, ntas “sayett, ” as Gay refers to them, wrten over one year, rerdg the small joys of life: Nicknam, beg lled “baby” by a wars, birds the Detro airport, wrg by hand.