Ross Gay - Ross Gay is the thor of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award.
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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 is the thor of three poetry llectns, Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), which won the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award, a 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award, was a 2015 Natnal Book Award Falist, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award Falist; Brgg the Shovel Down (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2011); and Agast Which (CavanKerry Prs, 2006).
Barker, and Ptsburgh-based young-adult novelist Sara Shephard (“Pretty Ltle Liars”) readg clu natnally known Ross Gay, a Natnal Book Crics Circle award-wner, and such Ptsburgh-based poets as Jan Beatty, Lynn Emanuel, Charlie Brice, Sarah Williams-Deverx, Bona Penn, Lori Jakiela and Michael Simms. Through a kd of lyric rearch, or lyric medatn, Ross Gay nnects Dr.
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And how that reachg might be somethg like & Reviews“The brilliant fourth book om Gay... ”— Publishers Weekly starred review“Ross Gay’s work is not only celebratory. ”—RHINO“In turng an stance of athletic prows and grace to an expansive metaphoric visn, Gay pulls off a syntactil tour force.
”—Baltimore Art“Gay’s poem theoriz an ethics that is pably polil, and s ebullient gratu, fore and aft, reads not jt as an overflow of thankfulns but as a ncrete practice of the ethics Gay suggts. Ross Gay tak one fluid human gture and through expands the lungs of personal and munal history so they might hold all joy, terror, and vlence of this world.
In this terrible era, Ross Gay has wrten a book that breath this broken world and then returns to so we might breathe too. Ross Gay has once aga proven himself one of our greatt poets. Aga and aga, the betiful note he holds and hands, that’s what Ross Gay be sayg.