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• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE
• TAKG FLIGHT: ROSS GAY’S ‘BE HOLDG’ TELLS A BLACK STORY THROUGH PHOTO AND LYRIC
• POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW
• HOW ROSS GAY FDS JOY IN THE SMALLT OF 'DELIGHTS'
• ROSS GAY: A WAY WH WORDS
• ROSS GAY

ROSS GAY

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~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. Poet Ross Gay explor the qutns – What c joy? Wrten over the urse of the panmic, Gay ponrs joy, fg ls as the absence of sorrow and rather as our rponse to .

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ROSS GAY’S SECRETS FOR LIVG A MORE JOYFUL LIFE

CNN spoke wh Gay prr to his new book’s release.

There’s an say Ross Gay’s new llectn, Incg Joy, that begs wh a discsn of his favore sports book, John Edgar Wiman’s Hoop Roots, a memoir told through the thor’s lifelong relatnship wh basketball. Over the next eleven pag, Gay, a longtime hoop lover himself, offers a medatn on the bety of the pickup game, and how a good urt is a microsm of mocracy.

TAKG FLIGHT: ROSS GAY’S ‘BE HOLDG’ TELLS A BLACK STORY THROUGH PHOTO AND LYRIC

”Gay, a 48-year-old poet and profsor at Indiana Universy, has ma a reer of explorg the wonr to be found our everyday liv, notably his btsellg 2019 say llectn, The Book of Delights. ”Book ver of “Incg Joy” by Ross Gay. Courty of Ross GayGQ: A word that up aga and aga your work is the word practice.

Ross Gay: I started to thk about that word when I was dog The Book of Delights. Award-wng thor and poet Ross Gay turned a 25-send basketball clip to a book-length poem.

POET ROSS GAY EXPLOR A JOY RMED BY EP SORROW

Gay’s poem, “Be Holdg, ” stemmed om him watchg a vio of former Philalphia 76ers forward Juli Ervg, makg a reverse layup the fourth game of the 1980 NBA Fals.

Ervg’s show-stoppg move is the first image Gay illtrated for his Zoom dience at the creative wrg partment’s first stallment of the “Yawp!

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

Imag like Ervg’s are the basis for the story Gay tells “Be Holdg. Each image is one of what Gay refers to as a “movement” the poem.

“I uld see a uple movements ( the poem), ” Gay said. “(The Ebo) people who were enslaved were brought over here and they were like ‘We’re not gonna be enslaved, ’ and they walked to the water and they flew back home, ” Gay said. However, is an entirely different experience when Gay reads .

ROSS GAY: A WAY WH WORDS

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

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. Ross Gay: Jt to be very real, the book ed to be lled Flight. Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay.