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The Wilderness Inside Us – Two Poems by Canadian Don McKay and American Ross Gay

October 30, 2019 – 9:59 pm

Song for the Song of the Varied Thrush In thin mountain air, the single note lives longer, laid along its uninflected but electric, slightly ticklish line, a close vibrato waking up the pause which follows, then once more on a lower or higher pitch and in this newly minted interval you realize the wilderness between […]

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A Celebration of Prosody – The Swoops of Ross Gay’s Breathless Sentences and a Meditation on Joy

July 24, 2019 – 7:27 pm

And yet, and yet, when the cold makes brittle what remains—the spent okra stalk, the few pepper plants that hang on through the first two frosts, these little gold tomatoes—when it withers even the rogue amaranth, its tousled mane bent and defeated, when the silver maple out front has ceased whispering, and when the bullfrogs […]

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Ross Gay Wins the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

March 17, 2016 – 11:35 pm

The American poet Ross Gay ( 1974 – ) has won a lot of plaudits for his 2015 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude which won the 2016 Tufts Poetry Award, and earlier tonight, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry . It had been short-listed earlier for the 2015 National Book Award but […]

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