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Youngstown-born poet Ross Gay won the 2021 Jean Stein Book Award and its $75,000 cash prize. Gay, who moved to the Philadelphia area at a young age, won the award for “Be Holding, A Poem,” which was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. It is described as a book-length poem and homage to basketball legend Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers. It weaves in cultural and historical references, zooming in for a close look at Erving and back out to all of the forces that made the basketball legend possible. Gay is a professor at Indiana University and returned to Youngstown two years ago as a guest of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts. ....
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Reply Feb. 19, 2021 Manchester Community College, home of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, is joining with the circuit to sponsor author and poet Ross Gay on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. Gay will read from his work live via WebEx. Subscribe Gay is author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and was the winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Gay also is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin . He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer s Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. ....