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Contents:
- ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW
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- ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
- THE PEOPLE'S POETRY ARCHIVE PRENTS, A POETRY READG WH ROSS GAY
ROSS GAY ON CG JOY WHILE DG WH SORROW
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ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
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ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
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POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
~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. I am Nadia Colburn, and I am here today wh Ross Gay.
THE PEOPLE'S POETRY ARCHIVE PRENTS, A POETRY READG 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.