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Gray Davidson Carroll

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Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 7 Winter 2024

Gray Davidson Carroll is a white, transfemme writer, dancer, singer, cold water plunger and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate alchemist hailing from Brooklyn by way of western Massachusetts and other strange and forgotten places.

They are the author of the poetry chapbook “Waterfall of Thanks” (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in Rattle, The Common, ONLY POEMS, and elsewhere. They are a former Brooklyn Poets Fellow and are currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU.

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Spotlight: Gray Davidson Carroll

“I’ve been writing poetry since I was a teenager and fell in love with public health in college. Beginning and since then, I’ve worked to weave those passions together in my personal and professional life.”

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Gray's Poems
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Where Do the Children Play?

A teenage cancer survivor, this poemee shared how she learned from the younger children she witnessed undergoing the same treatment she was. “You just see a difference in the way a child approaches it,” she said. “They have the moment, they have the pain, they have the shot, and then they just go back to playing. I always took strength from the way little kids would handle it.”

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Mirror Talk

“The fact of my life is a miracle,” she told me. Living with multiple chronic illnesses, this patient spoke to me of her journey with alopecia. Of how, in witnessing her body transformed by the condition, she continues to move at once through grief and reclamation.

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