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ROSS GAY
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So you have this book, Bright Felon, and then you have my book Sky Ward, which is like ostensibly about Is and Daedal, but ’s really about sons who don’t listen to their fathers, and is about beg a gay son and all of that. I did an event once wh the poet Ross Gay where we were talkg around this ia, and he said, “good means tryg. I wre for a wi range of people, like, I have poems that are for gay bathho, and poems that are for, like, black grandmas and five-year olds.