Ross Gay in 2014. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Ross Gay (born August 1, 1974) is an African-American poet and academic.
Life[]
Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up outside of Philadelphia. He earned a B.A. from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, a M.F.A. in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College,[1] and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Temple University.
He has been a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man and a painter. He has taught poetry, art and literature at Lafayette College and at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and at the low-residency M.F.A. in poetry program at Drew University.[2][3]
His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and Atlanta Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009).[4]
Recognition[]
His honors include being a Cave Canem Workshop fellow and a Bread Loaf Writers Conference Tuition Scholar. He received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts.[5][6]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Against Which. Fort Lee, NJ: CavanKerry Press, 2006.
- Bringing the Shovel Down. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011.
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
Ross Gay - "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude"
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Lafayette College > Alumni News > Ross Gay '96 Returns to Help Students
- ↑ Indiana University > IU Newsroom > October 15, 2009 > IU Poet Ross Gay Shares His 'Waves of Inspiration'
- ↑ Indiana University - Bloomington > Department of English Faculty > Ross Gay
- ↑ Persea Books Website > “From the Fishouse’’ Book Page
- ↑ Interview: The Cortland Review > Issue 41, November 2008 > A Conversation with Ross Gay by Joanna Penn Cooper
- ↑ Indiana University > IU Newsroom > October 15, 2009 > IU Poet Ross Gay Shares His 'Waves of Inspiration'
- ↑ Search results = au:Ross Gay, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 26, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Poem: The American Poetry Review > Vol. 35, No. 5 > Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street by Ross Gay
- "In a Country They'd Not Visited in Years," Cortland Review.
- For Some Slight I Can't Quite Recall," text and commentary at How a Poem Happens.
- Audio / video
- Ross Gay at YouTube
- Audio Reading: Ross Gay Reads for From the Fishouse
- Audio Interview: NHPR > Poet Ross Gay Interviewed by Liz Bulkley > Friday, February 23, 2007
- Books
- Ross Gay at Amazon.com
- About
- Author Page: CavanKerry Press > Author Ross Gay
- Gay, Ross at the Pennsylvania Center for the Book
- Interview: The Cortland Review > Issue 41, November 2008 > "A Conversation with Ross Gay" by Joanna Penn Cooper
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