Reading by Ross Gay

Poet and Essayist Ross Gay reads from his work for the Spring 2023 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series at Cornell University, February 9, 2023 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.
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"The refusal is joy! Footnote: We sometimes forget that one of joy´s primary expressions is refusal. I will not support your war. I will not accept your policy. I will not obey your law. I will not let you cut down this groove of trees. Refusals which are the evidence and the practice of belonging to something larger than yourself. Larger to and by far, than whom and what we refuse. The refusal is among the offenses of joy." Thank you Mr. Gay!!!