The Poem That Changed My Life: Ross Gay's "Brgg the Shovel Down" - Not so very long ago—five years perhaps—I opened the pag of a book and began to read a poem that entirely renfigured my notns of what a poem n do. The poem was Ross Gay’s “Brgg the Shovel Down.” And, as is so often the se wh world-transformg revelatns, the enunter also h me wh the force of profounst rememberg: Here was an stance, a glor, exfoliatg stance, of all I had always hoped and believed about the ways and wherewhal of art.
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- ROSS GAY
- THE POEM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: ROSS GAY'S "BRGG THE SHOVEL DOWN"
- POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY POEMS
- GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
- POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
- ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS
ROSS GAY
Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh. He earned a BA om Lafayette College, an MFA Poetry om Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD English om… * poets like ross gay *
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THE POEM THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: ROSS GAY'S "BRGG THE SHOVEL DOWN"
Ross Gay - Ross Gay is the thor of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015), wner of the Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the Kgsley Tufts Award. * poets like ross gay *
Ross Gay is the thor of Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu. Ross Gay is the thor of three books of poetry: Agast Which, Brgg the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, which won the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award.
One of my favore poems om Ross Gay is an early one lled, “Thank You. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh.
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). 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).
POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY
Ross Gay jos VS wh his boistero lgh and brilliance on hand. The poet and profsor breaks down the ways we’re all entangled, the elegant lsons… * poets like ross gay *
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 got an entire fuckg book out of . Today we’re talkg to Ross Gay, who is one of our favore poets the entire fuckg world.
ROSS GAY POEMS
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Danez Smh: Ross Gay is the thor, most recently, of Catalog of Unabashed Gratu and The Book of Delights.
Ross Gay: So I’ll jt beg this poem.
Ross Gay: Mm-hmm.
GET TO KNOW EVERYBODY READS AUTHOR ROSS GAY
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Ross Gay: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Danez Smh: I felt whelmed readg bee felt like sort of the ultimate Ross Gay to me. Ross Gay: (LAUGHS).
POET ROSS GAY ON HIS NEW BOOK AND FDG JOY SORROW
Ross Gay is an important ntemporary poet. He is the thor of llectns of poetry and a llectn of says, The Book of Delights. * poets like ross gay *
Ross Gay: Yeah. Danez Smh: So I gus for me, I read Be Holdg and I was like, oh, this is what Ross Gay has always been workg towards. Ross Gay: Right.
ROSS GAY: FDG JOY THE PROCS
On April 8, Lerary Arts will host Ross Gay, partnership wh the Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundatn, as the culmatg event MCL's 2021 Everybody Reads program. Get to know Gay a ltle better before the event! * poets like ross gay *
Ross Gay: -Yeah. Ross Gay: Yeah, that’s a great qutn.
Ross Gay: That was an asi that was a different book that never beme a book.
Ross Gay: I know, I know. Ross Gay: It’s really misleadg-yeah, ’s really misleadg. Ross Gay: Yeah, yeah.
In the last two years, seems like everyone has been searchg for joy. Now, poet Ross Gay is explorg qutns around that subject his new book "Incg Joy," a llectn of says released Tuday. * poets like ross gay *
Ross Gay: And that was a funny thg wh this book bee I was like, oh, I don’t know how to-I don’t … for a long time I was like, I don’t actually know how to get to the end of—bee all is, ’s like … the long clip is 10 sends, but the move is three sends.
Ross Gay: (LAUGHS) I know! Ross Gay: And there’s a ltle punctuatn change the fal versn of the book.
Ross Gay: The perd’s gone!