Today's poem is "A Small Needful Fact"
from Stronger Than Fear
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 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays, Inciting Joy, will be released by Algonquin in October of 2022.
Books by Ross Gay:
Other poems on the web by Ross Gay:
Fifteen poems
Eigth poems
"Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street"
"Nursery"
"A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me"
Ross Gay's Website.
Ross Gay on Twitter.
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