ABOUT — ROSS GAY

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

ROSS GAY

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HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'

~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. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh.

POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW

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). Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay.

So many thgs light Ross Gay: handma fy srv and loerg, the joy of rryg a heavy bag between two people, paw paws and even weeds. This summer, I reread yet aga and found myself medatg on a sire Gay had voiced: wantg to be softer a world so ready to sharpen and to make hard.

So, a recent terview, I talked to Gay about that sire, as well as the role of joy daily life, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love. In one of his most famo poems, A Small Needful Fact, Ross Gay remembers Eric Garner, who was choked to ath by a New York Cy police officer 2014. Gay not that Garner worked as a garner once, and “ all likelihood / he put gently to the earth / some plants which most likely / … ntue to grow.

ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

Gay, who teach at Indiana Universy, won the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Poetry Prize for his 2015 Catalog of Unabashed Gratu. And om , Gay observ the world.

Leah Rumack spoke to Gay this past fall.