Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street (live, Colby)
Ross Gay reading Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street, recorded live at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, on February 7, 2007.
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Ross Gay live audience Q&A, Colby
Ross Gay answering audience questions, live at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, February 7, 2007.
Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait
Do you dream of Saturn of molars of the jeweled corridors of palaces dream the commander’s robes his crooked smile dream sooty bellows of cumulous dream dress dream a lover’s breath dream wind over dunes the voices riding night winds dream whispered light of stars dream teddy bear dream mother father dream baby sister dream […]
Unclean. Make me.
And if a woman has an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days. And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days. Leviticus, Chapter 15 When the body blooms, you must put your face […]
How To Fall in Love With Your Father
Put your hands beneath his armpits, bend your knees, wait for the clasp of his thinning arms; the best lock cheek to cheek. Move slow. Do not, right now, recall the shapes he traced yesterday on your back, moments before being wheeled to surgery. Do not pretend the anxious calligraphy of touch was sign beyond […]
Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow
For Thomas Lux And fails. First, imagine the weapon pointing heavenward beneath his chin. After the trigger’s quick tick, the following: what, for said undead, must have sounded like a rocket’s stratospheric crash, which is to say the arrow just crested the crown (i.e. it got stuck). At which point, the head now a kebob, […]
Ross Gay Q&A recommends two poets
Ross Gay, a Ph.D. candidate and Cave Canem fellow, discusses two poets he recommends.