Ross gay catalog of unabashed gratitude poem

A poet, educator, and community gardener, Ross Gay tends to joy as one would an orchard—from seedlings to harvest, through all seasons of growth. In his collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Gay demonstrates the practice of gratitude while never losing sight of the loss that animates it. That first chilly air. Mistakes can be landscapes of new possibilities, he seems to say.

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A formidable contemporary poet, Ross Gay earned his BA from Lafayette College, received his MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence, and was granted a PhD in American literature from Temple University. Aside from teaching at Indiana University in Bloomington, Gay also acts as a board member for the Bloomington Community Orchard , a non-profit free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. As the author of three poetry collections, Against Which , Bringing the Shovel Down , and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude , Ross Gay has already garnered a remarkable record of achievements and recognition. This past April, Claremont Graduate School awarded Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award designed to acknowledge a mid-career poet who is reaching new heights of poetic excellence.

When Ross Gay read for the SAL Poetry Series last week, it was exactly what I needed. I dare say it was exactly what we all needed. His stunning ambition—linguistic, relational, emotional—is still with me as I write this. Gay, it turns out, is just as effusive in person as he is in the poems of his most recent collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.