Ross Gay: Interview—Be Holdg, Gratu, Delights | Nadia Colburn

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

ROSS GAY

Ross Gay is the thor of three books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.

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

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 GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

There’s an say Ross Gay’s new llectn, Incg Joy, that begs wh a discsn of his favore sports book, John Edgar Wiman’s Hoop Roots, a memoir told through the thor’s lifelong relatnship wh basketball. Over the next eleven pag, Gay, a longtime hoop lover himself, offers a medatn on the bety of the pickup game, and how a good urt is a microsm of mocracy. ”Gay, a 48-year-old poet and profsor at Indiana Universy, has ma a reer of explorg the wonr to be found our everyday liv, notably his btsellg 2019 say llectn, The Book of Delights.

”Book ver of “Incg Joy” by Ross Gay. Courty of Ross GayGQ: A word that up aga and aga your work is the word practice. Ross Gay: I started to thk about that word when I was dog The Book of Delights.

ROSS GAY

In this episo of Life As It Is, wrer Ross Gay explor how joy emerg om how we re for one other—and how dissolv the boundari between .

Ross Gay | Photo by Natasha Komoda. But for poet Ross Gay, joy n be a radil and necsary act of ristance and belongg. In his new say llectn, Incg Joy, Gay explor the ruals and habs that make joy more available to , as well as the ways that joy n ntribute to a eper sense of solidary and re.

ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS

In this episo of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s edor--chief, Jam Shaheen, and -host Sharon Salzberg s down wh Gay to talk about fdg joy the midst of grief and sorrow, the dangers of believg ourselv to be self-sufficient, and how joy n dissolve the boundari between . Read a review of Gay’s new book, Incg Joy, here. 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!

Ross Gay was born on Augt 1, 1974, Youngstown, Oh. Gay is the thor of four llectns of poetry: Be Holdg (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2020); Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award; Brgg the Shovel Down (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2011); and Agast Which (Cavankerry Prs, 2006). Gay is a foundg edor, wh Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the onle sports magaze Some Call Ball’, and an edor of the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs.

Gay’s honors clu fellowships om Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Wrers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundatn. Gay served as the Gut Edor for Poem-a-Day October 2018.