Poetry Path: Ross Gay

Ross Gay was born in 1974 in Youngstown, Ohio. He has written three collections of poetry, including Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. He most recently published a collection of essays, The Book of Delights (Algonquin Books, 2019). Gay teaches at Indiana University, and serves as an editor at chapbook presses Q avenue and Ledge Mule Press.

Photo by Daniel Terna

Ross Gay, “A Small Needful Fact” from Split This Rock’s The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database (2015). Used with the permission of the author.

The Poetry Path is made possible through a partnership with Battery Park City Authority, partners in design and fabrication of the Poetry Path, with additional support from our Outreach Partner, Goldman Sachs. Special thanks to the Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation for funding the Poetry Path planning process, and to the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation for supporting Poetry Path educational initiatives for youth and children.