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Contents:
- ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU
- ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
- ROSS GAY’S UNABASHED GRATU
ROSS GAY’S UNFOLDG UNRSTANDG OF UNABASHED GRATU
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.
ROSS GAY: INTERVIEW—BE HOLDG, GRATU, DELIGHTS
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.
ROSS GAY’S UNABASHED GRATU
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.