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- ROSS GAY
- GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
- HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
- THE HEARTH & HOME LECTURE: ROSS GAY
- DISPELLG THE MYTH OF MASCULY: ROSS GAY AND PL MARTíNEZ POMPA
ROSS GAY
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… * ross gay mercantile *
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GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
On April 8, Lerary Arts will host Ross Gay, partnership wh the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundatn, as the culmatg event MCL's 2021 Everybody Reads program. Get to know Gay a ltle better before the event! * ross gay mercantile *
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). 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.
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HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
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 mercantile *
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.
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.
THE HEARTH & HOME LECTURE: ROSS GAY
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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.
DISPELLG THE MYTH OF MASCULY: ROSS GAY AND PL MARTíNEZ POMPA
The Hearth & Home Lecture: Ross Gay happeng at The Merntile Library, 414 Walnut St #1100,Ccnati,OH,Uned Stat, Ccnati, Uned Stat on Wed Mar 08 2023 at 06:00 pm * ross gay mercantile *
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 .
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.
The speakers Ross Gay’s Agast Which and Pl Martínez Pompa’s My Kill Adore Him are not aaid to step to taboo terrory. They’re not aaid to qutn or dare anyone: “What-chu gonna do now?[1]” Whether chokg out a dnk[2] or steppg to sucker mcs[3], they don’t back out of suatns which they fd… * ross gay mercantile *
Gay has received fellowships om the Guggenheim Foundatn, Cave Canem, and the Bread Loaf Wrers’ Conference.
To which Ross Gay rponds word and ed, how n we not be joyful, pecially a moment like this?
We practice tenrns and mercy part bee to unrstand that we are all sufferg is one qualy of what Ross Gay lls “adult joy.