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Inciting joy with Ross Gay

The TED Interview

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Is There a Gap Between Poetry and Writing?

As a kid, I read like comic books, Power Man and Iron Fist. But I didn't start reading until college. And then I started writing poems. It's sort of amazing to think that when I was like 19 or something, it was this poem, which is profoundly mysterious but also has the line "I'm inside someone that hates me"

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