How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/25/ross-gay-book-of-delights/
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How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/25/ross-gay-book-of-delights/
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Today's poem:
Opera Singer
- by Ross Gayhttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/820928744673918976/opera-singer?source=share
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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/
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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/29/writers-artists-gardens/
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...and thank you, friends, when last spring
the hyacinth bells rang
and the crocuses flaunted
their upturned skirts, and a quiet roved
the beehive which when I entered
were snugged two or three dead
fist-sized clutches of bees between the frames,
almost clinging to one another,
this one’s tiny head pushed
into another’s tiny wing,
one’s forelegs resting on another’s face,
the translucent paper of their wings fluttering
beneath my breath... -
Ross Gay is fantastic and The Book of Delights Stands up well to multiple readings. It is the kind of perfectly crafted poetic prose that can make one wonder if it was edited at all (any writer would know the answer is a thundering yes). But dear god. So good. #bookstodon #RossGay #delight
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Inciting Joy by poet and essayist Ross Gay explores incitements to experiencing #joy in topics from #skateboarding to #gardening to pop music to pick-up #basketball to creating a community orchard—a lot of life, some grieving, plenty of #humor, plus social commentary all mashed up in joyful observations. These thoughtful, thought-provoking essays are a thoroughly enjoyable read.
#BooksWorthReading #essays #RossGay #BloomingtonIndiana #Philadelphia
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ArtBBQ Studio Playlist 2024 #43: Stevie Ada Klaark
https://artbbq.nl/2024-43-stevie-ada-klaark/
Artists share their favorite music with each other.
Find new music and see if it resonates with the creative output.2024 photo-challenge: take a photo of your shadow.
#studioplaylist #yearendlist #artbbq
#Slowspin #EmahoyTsegeMariamGebru #Laraaji #LaurieAnderson #SessionVictim
#Mitski #GlennGould #AliceColtrane #Nemahsis #RossGay #GiaMargaret
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Read this for poetry and for protest.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ordinaryplots/p/ws-merwins-to-the-blank-spaces?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2t69m#poetry #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #protest #dissent #FreePalestine #WSMerwin #DevinKelly #HanifAbdurraqib #RossGay #AnnaKornbluh #ColumbiaUniversity #StudentSolidarity #Gaza #JohnCage #music #listening #birds #silence
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Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week.
Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?
For more great pop-culture content sign up for our weekly newsletter, new every Monday. Link in bio!
#beyonce #cowboycarter #godzillavskong #stevensalvatore #homicidenewyork #netflix #rubiramossrecipeforsuccess #latenightwiththedevil #isitcakenetflix #rossgay #newmutants #weweretheluckyones #thewhostommy
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The Tyee: Amidst Climate Grief, I’m Searching for Joy https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/22/Amidst-Climate-Grief-Searching-Joy/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #PacificSpiritRegionalPark #RobinWallKimmerer #climateanxiety #MandyLenCatron #climategrief #RossGay
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What do you notice during the course of each day? I've been noticing delights.
https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/walking-in-august-of-sparkles-and.html
#walking #delights #BookOfDelights #RossGay #water #shore #OlyWA #Olympia #parks -
There is a new episode of my conversation series, "Let's Talk!" available; I talked last summer with Prof Kiara Jorgenson of St. Olaf College. We discuss the expanding lives of students, intersectional justice, place-based vocation, panentheism, and more: https://youtu.be/-0SZnD3AWJ8
Audio-only: https://letstalk-paulsantmire.podbean.com/
#ClimateAnxiety
#SaintOlafCollege #JürgenMoltmann #JoannaMacy #RossGay #Niebuhr #ErikErikson
#WesleyWildman #panentheism #Luther #LutheransRestoringCreation -
From Orwell’s Roses by Solnit. Perfect book to follow Inciting Joy by Ross Gay, whom Solnit happened to be quoting at the top of this page. #OrwellsRoses #RebeccaSolnit #RossGay #IncitingJoy
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From Ross Gay’s new book. #RossGay #IncitingJoy #AbsenceAsViolence
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#Bookstodon - 7 favorite writers (or the 7 that occur to me right now):
#JaneAusten - I am not a savage
#AnnaBurns - Milkman moved me more than anything I've read in many years
#RossGay - inspires joy
#MaryOliver - inspires joy
#PattiSmith - Just Kids, just extraordinary
#BarbaraKingsolver - my go-to in more youthful days
#FredrikBackman - take me to Sweden, stat -
Ross Gay's essays in INCITING JOY make me thankful for all the beautiful ways we show up for, fight for, and care for each other. (A lot of you will especially appreciate "We Kin," where the garden becomes "a laboratory of mutual aid.") If you're feeling burned out and cynical, if you're involved in any kind of collective liberation and care, or if you simply need a little boost—this is a must-read.
#Nonfiction #Essays #Bookstadon #Bookstodon #RossGay #Joy #Books #Reading #BookReview
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I wasted no time getting my hands on a copy of this timely, essential reading #RossGay #IncitingJoy #Poetry #Essays #Poet
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