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Joy Is Something You Can Wear – Two Poems by Ghanaian Poet Tryphena Yeboah and a Poem and Quotes by American Poet Ross Gay

April 8, 2023 – 3:40 pm

I SING THEREFORE WE SING I need you to understand: my joy is something you can wear, too. Throw it over your head like a blessing bestowed, keep it wrapped […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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