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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: HAVE I EVEN TOLD YOU YET ABOUT THE COURTS I’VE LOVED?

In the last two years, seems like everyone has been searchg for joy. Now, poet Ross Gay is explorg qutns around that subject his new book "Incg Joy," a llectn of says released Tuday. * ross gay father *

Be Holdg by Ross Gay is available via Universy of Ptsburgh Prs.

POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW

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 father *

Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy? Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to . Jt look at the way the garners share their extra vegetabl, Gay not.

And the are jt a few of endls exampl, Gay tells CNN. CNN spoke wh Gay prr to his new book’s release. I am Nadia Colburn, and I am here today wh Ross Gay.

Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, and wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross Gay: Thank you, ’s good to be wh you too. Ross Gay: That’s such a good qutn.

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

Learn more about Ross Gay: Interview—Be Holdg, Gratu, Delights here. Read this article and download our Free Rourc at Nadia Colburn . % * ross gay father *

Ross Gay: All of . Ross Gay: Jt north of Philalphia. Ross Gay: Well, that is very much my poetic and ethil and spirual practice.

Ross Gay: That’s here. Ross Gay: I know . Ross Gay: I don’t know that a kid would say this, but ’s sort of like this has been given to me, like the sun g through through the tre or the sun filterg through that squirrel hangg on that oak tree, through the qutn mark of that squirrels tail, the sun is actually filtered, that has been given to me.

ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

Poet and sayist Ross Gay will discs his works St. Pl at the Fzgerald Theater on Nov. 2. * ross gay father *

Ross Gay: They’re notg all of this stuff that is so often as an adult, we don’t notice. Ross Gay: The next le is a few years before his father went down.

WRER ROSS GAY'S NEW BOOK IS ABOUT FDG JOY THE FACE OF LOSS

Poet and sayist Ross Gay shar stori of joy and theoriz that the experience of joy might possibly be the bt tool for ung and polarizg as a people. * ross gay father *

Ross Gay: Yeah, that’s good. Ross Gay: I’ll read the last three stanzas.

INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL

Ross Gay: For sure.

Ross Gay: That’s . Ross Gay: I thk some of the qutns that this book rais are those qutns. Ross Gay: Thank you for noticg that.

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Ross Gay: It’s like many thgs. Ross Gay: Aretha Frankl’s “Amazg Grace”.

But I’ve jt been listeng to that, that album so much, and ’s jt like self is a kd of set of rabb hol bee she vers Marv Gaye holy home, which is kd of phed me back over to what’s gog on that album, but that rerd and two songs particular, “Mary Don’t You Weep” and “Never Grow Old”… I’ll put those on and I’ll do my work out.

ROSS GAY

Ross Gay: I thk I do actually… It is, sometim ’s a practice where I’m sort of wrg 30 mut every day, but I do have a practice of acknowledgement, I thk jt sort of steadily. Ross Gay: My partner and I are the often recipients and often givers of thgs we grow thgs, we uld ok, so that practicg sharg and beg the recipient of other people’s sire and tert to share as well.

Ross Gay: That’s like a practice too… When someone giv you somethg, to not be like, Oh, here’s somethg too, here’s somethg back.

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Ross Gay: We’re practicg on how to take re of each other.

ROSS GAY

Ross Gay: My pleasure, my pleasure.

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