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When you wore your funeral dress all weekend
then witnessed a terrible accident.
When you dreamt you were asked your worth.
When you heard screaming when you woke.
After you passed three abandoned drive-ins.
When you realized you’re lonely for everything,
the chicken pox, the desert, kissing underwater.
When you channeled your rage by crushing
Gra...

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Sparrow is the shape of my palate—
I put her in my mouth. I form my lips
into a holy-oak bivouac, field observatory
for the bird to flee the Ford’s wheel well
over clam pink glaze of sunken twilight snow
and the tungsten teeth of my redwing boots;
her pulse on the flat of my tongue may rise
like dampened tympani up neural filigree,
up blood map an...

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You try to prepare for when the lake simmers, no wind or waves.
While a rhythmic pounding lurks at the edge of earshot,
the stillness drags you down into lost cities of vinegar and bone,
so you escape in your car and drive past green lakes of fallow fields.

When the rhythmic pounding accelerates, at the edge of earshot,
you drive faster as the wind rise...


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At Just Buffalo Literary Center, we believe reading is a transformative act. By engaging with the voices of poets like Ross Gay, we learn to look with new eyes, discovering that the habit of reading can sharpen our empathy and spark joy.

We are thrilled to invite the public to a ser...


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When you think of an American, whom do you see?
How old are they?
How long have they been here?
Is this person a “new” American?
Can the person you’re picturing be a “new” American?
Why/why not?

Does the American you see believe that people should own any type of gun?
Does the American you see own a gun? Should they?
Are there any types of A...


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