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Ross Gay

Ross Gay
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Ross Gay

Born: 1 August 1974

Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. He is the author of Be Holding (2020); Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award; Bringing the Shovel Down (2011); and Against Which (2006). He has also published an essay collection, The Book of Delights (2019). He teaches at Indiana University and in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program. (Source)

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Poems by Ross Gay

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Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt by Ross Gay

January 25, 2026
“we practice / like this sliding the bones home.” — Ross Gay
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feet by Ross Gay

August 31, 2025
“I am trying, I think, to forgive myself / for something I don't know what.” — Ross Gay
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To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay

August 10, 2024
“we are feeding each other / from a tree” — Ross Gay