ABOUT — ROSS GAY

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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!

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ROSS GAY • WED, APR 12, 2023

Ross Gay will jo the Natnal Wrers Seri partnership wh the Interlochen Center for the Arts on April 12, 2023, at the Corson Audorium. * ross gay national writers series *

Ross Gay • Wed, Apr 12, 2023Gut Host Ari Mokdad is the Natnal Wrers Seri new tn director. Fd out more rmatn about the Ln Rock readg wh Ross Gay here.

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This year, the Creative Wrg partment, partnership wh the Natnal Wrers Seri, wel award-wng poet and sayist 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. His new llectn of says, Incg Joy, will be released by Algonqu October of will be visg Interlochen on April 12 to offer a masterclass for young thors, as well as an eveng readg and discsn as part of the Natnal Wrers Seri that is open to the, Gay reflects on fdg joy the everyday, explas how to disver one’s wrg voice, and shar his favore sourc of do you wre? Gay: I have qutns.

Gay: Fay/relatnships. Gay: Sourc of light are also sourc of survival.

Gay: It's about me wonrg: what are the thgs that we do that ce joy, that ce this practice of entanglement? Gay: I would suggt dispensg wh the ia of one's own voice, and I would wonr more about what are the many voic you might have available to you.

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Ross Gay. Gay: Wrer's block, seems to me, om perfectnism. Gay: Conversatns.

Gay: I'm jt exced to get to hear what the young folks are thkg about. Gay: A greater sense of re for one another. Gay: Study what you love, thk hard about what you love, and go toward tickets for A Conversatn wh 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. 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.

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

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M (PDT) more about Ross Gay, and check out all the Library’s addnal programmg, before the event!

WSU’S VISG WRERS SERI WEL POET ROSS GAY

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.

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