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Russell Janzen, on behalf of the Creative Writing at The New School and the NBCC, interviewed Ross Gay about his book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press), which is the National Book Critics Circle Award poetry winner for Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio.

And when we had this discovery, we laughed. But there is something singularly remarkable about witnessing that connection between two people standing only feet away from you. He wore a jewel-studded jean jacket over a Diana Ross t-shirt and bright red cowboy boots.

”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”. I had this recent experience at my MFA residency with a classmate of mine, we discovered that we shared the same trauma.

Ross Gay: Yes. I know that experience of having my own devastation or sorrow or heartbreak, being made aware that my heartbreak is not unique to me, that it is, in fact, common to others, at least someone else and probably lots of other people. I spoke with Ross for my podcast Musings of the Artist.

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It's in the midst of tending to one another's sorrows or at least being sort of residing with one another's sorrows that we're also able more seriously to dance and celebrate one another and care for one another. Ross Gay is a poet and essayist. ”A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me” ”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”.

We all, most of us, I hope, have experienced the profound feeling of talking with someone and realizing I am not the only one. Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. Ross also led a Student Storytelling Workshop for SpeakTogether at Talent Unlimited High School during the month of December Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the But I saw that she was smiling, too.

He took my friend into his arms as tears dripped from her eyes. I do feel like what you're talking about, my experience of that kind of thing—when I realized that I share this thing with someone else and it is not only mine, it actually inclines me to share other things.

This was the second time I had met him, and both times his palpable warmth radiated inside the space; it filled the room. I was thinking about this later because, of course, it wasn't funny, and it wasn't that we were laughing because it was funny, but I think perhaps it was sort of like this physical reaction to a lightness that we were not alone in our pain.

He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. You've said when we know sorrow is not unique to us, we might be less likely to be overcome by that sorrow. The joy of feeling understood, I imagine.

His easy smile beamed across his face, but it was more than that. Poetry is a form of artistic expression that uses language to evoke emotion, paint vivid imagery, and convey complex ideas. He is the author of Be Holding (); Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (), 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.

He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University. Below is an edited version of our conversation. It is a means of communicating human experiences and emotions. It puts it sharply into focus.

I think that's true. One of the things we talked about was the beauty of interactions with strangers—the one who gives you an extra donut, an unexpected kindness found in a laundromat, or the person who shouts bless you when they hear you sneeze down the street.

Later that night, my coworker who had recently lost her beloved mother to cancer was talking to Charles about his own devastating loss. That's kind of one of the things that I feel is why joy is really interesting; the way I think of it is a really interesting state or emotion or whatever you call it, because as far as I'm concerned, it implies or it understands or it carries with it the fullness of our experience, which means the devastation, which means the heartbreak, which means the sorrow.

With poems submitted, we’re grateful to everyone who entered and participated. This feeling of connection is for me when I feel most alive.