Ross Gay | poemoftheweek

Contents:

• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU
• GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY READS OM HIS NEW MANCRIPT BRGG THE SHOVEL DOWN

ROSS GAY

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

Sprg 2023January 8 Benef readg w poet John Smh Uned Methodist Church Frenchtown, NJJanuary 11 Readg for Illois Librari Virtual Event More rmatnJanuary 30 Youngstown Live/d Readg wh Ross Gay & Rochelle Hurt Virtual Event More rmatnFebary 3 Behd the Book Carmel Clay Library Carmel, IN More rmatnFebary 6 Seattle Arts & Lectur Seattle, WA More rmatnFebary 8 Readg for The Care Center Virtual Event More rmatnFebary 9 Readg for Cornell Universy Itha, NY More rmatnFebary 16 Talk at the Universy of Kansas Lawrence, KS More rmatnFebary 21 Readg at Try Universy San Anton, TXFebary 22 Readg at the Universy of Hoton-Downtown Hoton, TXFebary 23 Readg at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center Dallas, TXMarch 4 – 5 Tucson Ftival of Books Tucson, AZ More rmatnMarch 8The Hearth & Home LectureThe Merntile LibraryCcnati, OHMore rmatnMarch 9 The Axton Visg Wrer Seri Universy of Louisville Louisville, KYMarch 14 One Book Read Wt Kentucky Communy & Technil College Paduh, KY More rmatnMarch 17 Children’s Summ Kids Common San Jose, CA March 21 Bookshop Santa Cz wh Chris Mattgly Santa Cz, CA More rmatnMarch 23 Sat Elizabeth Universy Morristown, NJMore rmatnMarch 25 Virgia Ftival of the Book Charlottville, VA More rmatnMarch 27 Hampn-Sydney College Hampn Sydney, VirgiaMarch 30 Big Read Miami Miami, FLApril 2 Orange County Library Big Read Orlando, FL More rmatnApril 4 Wre Like Us! Ross Gay. “Wh Two Weeks the Ain-Amerin Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for the Ain-Amerin Poet Kyle Dargan and the Ain-Amerin Poet Terrance Hay, None of Whom Look Anythg Like the Others, ” and “Some Instctns on Blackns Given to My Black Friend by the Whe Woman He Briefly Dated: A Monologue, ” Indiana Review, Fall 2007.

ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU

“Stayg the Dark: A Conversatn wh Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal, ” SUNY Fredonia, Nov. “Wrg Race: A Conversatn between Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal, ” UNC Asheville, April 2008. “Fdg Your Voice: A Workshop wh Ross Gay and Alyce Miller, ” Indiana Universy, Dec.

A formidable ntemporary poet, Ross Gay earned his BA om Lafayette College, received his MFA poetry at Sarah Lawrence, and was granted a PhD Amerin lerature om Temple Universy. Gay is a foundg edor of the onle sports magaze Some Call It Ball’ and an active edor of the chapbook prs Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Prs. Asi om teachg at Indiana Universy Bloomgton, Gay also acts as a board member for the Bloomgton Communy Orchard, a non-prof ee-u-for-all food jtice and joy project.

GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY

As the thor of three poetry llectns, Agast Which (2006), Brgg the Shovel Down (2011), and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (2015), Ross Gay has already garnered a remarkable rerd of achievements and regnn. Gay received grants om the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and fellowships om both the Guggenheim Foundatn and the Radcliffe Instute and is a former Cave Canem Workshop fellow and Bread Loaf Wrer’s Conference scholar. In certa moments, Gay’s poems act as knowg s and slow, solemn nods; at others, his vers are stead wry wks.

Gay bls the quotidian wh a tone of mature joyfulns, elevatg the ordary to the realm of the sublime wh his ft poetic treatment.

But Ross Gay did not achieve this nveyed sense of unabashed gratu that embrac both the pleasur and hardships of existence overnight.

ROSS GAY READS OM HIS NEW MANCRIPT BRGG THE SHOVEL DOWN

Gay sists that like this newborn, our own railgs agast the horrors herent existence make both “impossible, / goln” and “longg, gone” (8). And “Thank You, ” Gay urg his rears that spe the fact that “all you love will turn to dt…do not raise your fist. Here Gay remends gratu spe of life’s stggl, whereas his later vers ll for an appreciatn of both the lighter and darker aspects of realy.

In Ross Gay’s send llectn of poetry, Brgg the Shovel Down, the poetic distance between life’s granur and stctn has dramatilly creased. Intertgly, the tular poem and s echo, Gay prents a ghastly childhood episo and s revised, rtorative versn to pict the alternate sis of existence’s . What mak Ross Gay’s eponymo poem om Catalog of Unabashed Gratu all the more stunng is s -mglg of appreciatn for life’s joys and sorrows.