Ross Gay at Colby College, February 7, 2007
Ross Gay at the Fishouse, Pittston, Maine, February 2007.
On February 7, 2007, From the Fishouse and Colby College were pleased to present a reading by Ross Gay on the Colby campus in Waterville, Maine, part of a collaboration between Fishouse and the creative writing department at Colby.
Listen to the full reading (approximately 50 minutes) or listen to the poems individually:
- Full Reading, with an introduction by Ira Sadoff
- Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to My Black Friend by the White Woman
He Briefly Dated, A Monologue - Within Two Weeks, The African American Poet Ross Gay is Mistaken For Both the African American Poet Terrance Hayes, and the African American Poet Kyle Dargan, None of Whom Looks Anything Like the Other
- The Marionette
- Unclean. Make Me.
- Poem Beginning With a Line Overheard In the Gym
- Broken Mania
- The Truth
- Man Tries to Commit Suicide With a Crossbow
- Song of the Pig Who Gave the Poet, Age Three, Worms
- Bringing the Shovel Down
- Praising the Snake
- For Some Slight I Can't Recall
- Prayer For My Unborn Niece or Nephew
- A Beautiful Day
- Two Bikers Embrace on Broad Street