Poetry the new york school ross gay

Tell me more about them. Basketball is in the book and very much a part of the book. RG: The poems I love often help me to re-see or re-understand the world. Ross Gay: Just to be very real, the book used to be called Flight. In the title poem, he meditates on loss, joy and sorrow, all for which he gives thanks.

How do I be?

Poet Ross Gay explores : Gay, who teaches at Indiana University, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize for his Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

They challenge and move me. He witnesses. He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. Leah Rumack: Talk to me about the title Be Holding. Ross Gay was born on August 1,in Youngstown, Ohio, but he grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania.

RG: All of my writing is that. One of my favourite things is mycelia — the fungal networks in the forests. All of my writing is engaged with these questions. in American Literature from Temple University. LR: You write about wrestling with the creation of what you call the museum of Black pain.

And from it, Gay observes the world. They destabilize me and what I thought I knew and felt. RG: I do sometimes feel that people are misreading my work as being really joy-joy-happy-happy. One of the subjects is flight, and flight meaning not only the beautiful flight of Dr.

J in this move, but also the flight of my family from the Jim Crow South, and the connections between looking and flight — what kinds of looking make flight necessary? Finding hope and joy are themes you return to a lot. [1] He received his B.A.

from Lafayette College, his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, [2] and his Ph.D. I just wanted to see what it looked like where my great-grandfather was a sharecropper, and he had to flee from there for his life.

Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio.

Ross Gay The Youngstown : In the title poem, he meditates on loss, joy and sorrow, all for which he gives thanks

RG: Joy is my subject. Poems also witness, and that feels significant. Leah Rumack spoke to Gay this past fall. RG: The book is a sustained question of that. That was a photograph I came upon accidentally, and it totally swerved the poem.

”Within Two Weeks the African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken for Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, Not One of Whom Looks Anything Like the Others”.