Readg by Ross Gay - Cornell

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY READG HIS POEMS – VIO – NATNAL POETRY MONTH
• ROSS GAY: IN PRAISE OF THE POETRY READG
• READG BY ROSS GAY
• POETRY READG: ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY

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. Ross Gay: It is joy by which the labor that will make the life that I want, possible.

Ross Gay is a profsor of English at Indiana Universy Bloomgton and a wrer of poetry as well as says. Gay: It’s sort of amazg to me.

Gay: [lghs] Yeah, totally. Gay: Right, yeah. Gay: That’s a really good qutn.

ROSS GAY READG HIS POEMS – VIO – NATNAL POETRY MONTH

Gay: But ’s amazg, right? Gay: Wouldn’t turn to a monster. Gay: In some ways.

Gay: Verndale, Mnota. Gay: Anyone om Verndale?

ROSS GAY: IN PRAISE OF THE POETRY READG

Gay: There’s 500 people Verndale. Gay: And that’s the thg. Gay: The nnectn between the dyg and the joy?

Gay: Say aga?

Gay: That’s jt fuckg dumb.

READG BY ROSS GAY

Gay: Oh, yeah, sorry. Gay: Totally.

POETRY READG: ROSS GAY

Gay: I missed, like, the fourth day. Gay: Isn’t that great? Gay: Oh, my God, they’re jt like, “Well, why am I dog what they’re tellg me to do all the time?

Gay: Exactly, exactly. Gay: It jt me my ear. Gay: Many thgs surprised me, I suppose.

Gay: You know. Gay: [lghs] It’s pretty amazg. Today, wh wrer and muny garner Ross Gay.

ROSS GAY

Gay: Jt a soft way.

Gay: That’s somethg too — I was like, man, I drk a lot of ffee.