Ross gay feet

I first read them an excerpt of “Feet” by Ross Gay, for both that vulnerable aspect and the repetition of the word “feet.” The poem starts off with the line “Friends, mine are ugly feet.”.

Sign up Log in. Friends, mine are ugly feet: the body's common wreckage stuffed into boots. The second toe on the left foot's crooked enough that when a child asks whats that?

Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University.

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.

I first read them an excerpt of “Feet” by Ross Gay, for both that vulnerable aspect and the repetition of the word “feet.” The poem starts off with the line “Friends, mine are ugly feet.”.

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Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned a BA from Lafayette College, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a PhD in English from Temple University.

He has grown up without me in a shadow world that exists within this world: invisible but close by. The fact that he never existed makes him no less real to me. The way the universe sat waiting to become, quietly, in the nether of space and time,.