Ross Gay | Poetry Foundatn

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• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• WH TWO WEEKS THE AIN AMERIN POET ROSS GAY IS MISTAKEN FOR BOTH THE AIN AMERIN POET TERRANCE HAY AND THE AIN AMERIN POET KYLE DARGAN, NOT ONE OF WHOM LOOKS ANYTHG LIKE THE OTHERS
• GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

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).

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.

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. Wh Two Weeks the Ain Amerin Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the Ain Amerin Poet Terrance Hay and the Ain Amerin Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anythg Like the Others.

Ross Gay, "Wh Two Weeks the Ain Amerin Poet Ross Gay Is Mistaken for Both the Ain Amerin Poet Terrance Hay and the Ain Amerin Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anythg Like the Others" om Brgg the Shovel Down. Copyright © 2011 by Ross Gay. 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.

WH TWO WEEKS THE AIN AMERIN POET ROSS GAY IS MISTAKEN FOR BOTH THE AIN AMERIN POET TERRANCE HAY AND THE AIN AMERIN POET KYLE DARGAN, NOT ONE OF WHOM LOOKS ANYTHG LIKE THE OTHERS

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. Below is a b of Ross Gay’s life and wrg reer th far.

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

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

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 .

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.