Ross Gay
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Ross Gay is an American poet whose poems have been published in several magazines and journals.
[edit] Life and Work
Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up outside of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Atlanta Review, among other journals. He is a Cave Canem fellow and has been a Bread Loaf Tuition Scholar. In addition to holding a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University, he is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man and a painter.
Ross teaches poetry at Montclair State University in New Jersey and at New England College’s Low-Residency MFA program. His book of poems, Against Which, was published in 2006.
[edit] Selected Works
- Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow (2005)
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