Incg joy: Poet Ross Gay on garng, grief, and basketball | KCRW

Contents:

• STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
• INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL
• ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• COMMUNY WEL ROSS GAY FOR A DELIGHTFUL CONVERSATN
• THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS
• EXCLIVE VER REVEAL: ROSS GAY’S INCG JOY.
• THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS

STRUCTURES OF CARE, WH POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)

'" Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross GayI felt like we uld all e a nversatn wh Ross Gay today. Ross Gay is garner - he is also an award wng poet and a profsor.

"Poet and Garner, Teacher and Human - Ross Gaythor of "talog of unabashed gratu" (Universy of Ptsburgh Prs, 2015) Ross's work, as he says, is often about how we are tendg to one another this world.

THINKING OUT LOUD this so thkg out loud this week –When I say that garns and garners are tersectnal agents of powerful powerful change this world - Ross Gay and his garng impulse are everythg to do wh this - he, his stunts, the tre the munal orchard, the muny of humans related to the muny orchard (and we all are humans related to the muny orchard), embody the perfect fact that Garng is an ethil orientatn towards generosy, abundance, re, Joy and an herent and perennial sense of Thanksgivg.

INCG JOY: POET ROSS GAY ON GARNG, GRIEF, AND BASKETBALL

In his latt llectn of says and poems, “Incg Joy, ” thor Ross Gay ponrs the kds of experienc that have touched his life and brought him joy. Jonathan Bastian talks wh Gay about his sights on joy and why joy beme the topic for quiry his latt llectn of says and poems. From pickup basketball gam and skateboardg to fightg jtice and rg for his dyg father, Gay ponrs the sourc of joy his life and explas the many ways which joy and sorrow are are eply tertwed.

“My hunch is that joy emerg om our mon sorrow, which do not necsarily mean we have the same sorrows, but that we mon sorrow might draw together, ” Gay wr his book’s troductn. "In “Incg Joy, ” a llectn of says, poet and thor Ross Gay explor some of the ways he has found joy his life.

ROSS GAY

From pickup basketball gam and skateboardg to fightg jtice and rg for his dyg father, Ross Gay ponrs the sourc of joy his life and explas the many ways which joy and sorrow are are eply by Natasha Komoda. Ross Gay is terted Gay wants to unrstand Gay is cur about Gay studi joy.

~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. Today, we're stg down wh the wrer Ross Gay. So many thgs light Ross Gay: handma fy srv and loerg, the joy of rryg a heavy bag between two people, paw paws and even weeds.

This summer, I reread yet aga and found myself medatg on a sire Gay had voiced: wantg to be softer a world so ready to sharpen and to make hard. So, a recent terview, I talked to Gay about that sire, as well as the role of joy daily life, the difficulty of allowg yourself to be moved, and why he thks 's important to e the word "love." Our nversatn has been eded and nnsed for clary. Ross Gay was born Youngstown, Oh.

ROSS GAY

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). Summer readg thor Ross Gay shared his advice on garng and wrg. From garng l to groovy tun, Ross Gay, poet and thor of this year’s summer readg book The Book of Delights, joed the School meetg over Zoom on October 29 to read book excerpts and answer qutns.

Gay would be able to speak wh the muny this fall to discs his work and wrg procs. Gay’s story. Gay shared his work and the lsons to be learned om the book.

COMMUNY WEL ROSS GAY FOR A DELIGHTFUL CONVERSATN

Gay opened the meetg by readg excerpts om the book, before discsg some of his poems and fieldg qutns om English Department Head Mr. Gay revealed that he thks his wrg ronat wh his dience bee his stori are “particular.

Gay foced ls on the procs of wrg the book and more on the them sttered throughout The Book of Delights.

“Even over Zoom, Ross Gay moled for as a muny such prence and such an hont engagement wh our qutns and ias. L Hub is pleased to reveal the ver for Ross Gay’s new say llectn Incg Joy, which will be published by Algonqu Books October. In the geoly wrten and timely piec, prize-wng poet and thor Ross Gay nsirs the joy we ce when we re for each other, pecially durg life’s evable hardships.

THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS

Moisan spoke to L Hub about his personal nnectn to Gay’s work, and the spiratn behd the ver:.

For Gay’s part, he knew immediately that this sign was the right one. IN THE LATE JULY swelter and dragonfly buzz of summer, poets Aimee Nezhumatathil and Ross Gay began a rrponnce of poems — sent the old-fashned way, through the mail. Ross Gay is the thor of the poetry llectns Agast Which and Brgg the Shovel Down; his poems have appeared Amerin Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere.

Ross Gay is passnate about poetry, garng and basketball.

EXCLIVE VER REVEAL: ROSS GAY’S INCG JOY.

Gay jt moved back to Bloomgton, Indiana, after a ne-month fellowship at Harvard Universy. Gay says he wr poems about thgs that he has powerful qutns about, “qutns that a poem won’t answer.

Gay is also workg on a book about nnectns between land and race. Gay wrote a poem about Eric Garner, the Ain-Amerin man who died after New York Cy police officers put him a chokehold while tryg to arrt him. Gay says he was stck after readg his obuary The New York Tim.

THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS: POET AND GARNER ROSS GAY’S YEARLONG EXPERIMENT WILLFUL GLADNS

Gay’s poem “Burial” is about the ath of his father and about transformatn. You n hear Gay read the poem here or read the text below.

From Ross Gay’s “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu”, Ptsburgh Poetry Seri (2015).