Ross Gay, a famed poet and essayist whose works include Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude and Bringing The Shovel Down, is known for his essayettes of delights, compiled in The Book of Delights and The Book of More Delights. Gay writes about the little things that delight him every day, such as a ripe mulberry tree or the scent of May lilacs. Write your own essayette about something that delighted you today!
Posted in response to the challenge Create a Challenge.
submission for next year's prompts:
Use the NY Times Connections as a writing prompt! Take all 16 or one line of the words generated in there (before it's been solved) and use them in a poem or short story.
they have taken her.
hope.
she is trapped in the great big house made of new money & keys
that open nothing anymore. it is named america.
you can hear her,
i'll use your name. sweet nothings spill
from well-meaning mouths & shatter on concrete radiating summer sun
right back at you, perfect -- dainty -- shiny with dewdrops. they told me
Comments
Thanks for this challenge! It's in our Opinion & Commentary section!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I really love Gay's works and I think everyone should be able to revel in their own delight!
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