Ross Gay is the thor of three books: Agast Which (2006); Brgg the Shovel Down(2011); and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu (2015), wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award. Catalog of Unabashed Gratu was also a falist for the 2015 Natnal Book Award Poetry and nomated for an NAACP Image Award.
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ROSS GAY: IN-PERSON & ONLE
In a time like this, where do you look to for joy? In a recent episo of Krista Tippett’s podst, On Beg, poet Ross Gay said, “It is joy by which the labor that will make the life that I want, possible. It is not at all puzzlg to me that joy is possible […] * ross gay seattle arts and lectures *
Ross Gay: In-Person & Onle.
Ross Gay will break your heart.
ROSS GAY
Ross Gay is as sightful and lyril as an sayist as he is as a poet. Jo SAL and Marguere Casey Foundatn for a ee event celebratg the publitn of Ross Gay’s Incg Joy, an timate and electrifyg llectn of says om the New York Tim btsellg thor of The Book of Delights. In the geoly wrten and timely piec, Gay nsirs the joy we ce when we re for each other, pecially durg life’s evable hardships.
Throughout Incg Joy, Gay explor how we n practice regnizg that nnectn, and also, ccially, how we expand .
The format for this eveng will be a keynote and readg by Ross Gay, followed by a nversatn wh Dr.
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Ross Gay is terted joy. Ross Gay wants to unrstand joy. Ross Gay is cur about joy.
Ross Gay studi joy. Ross Gay is the thor of four books of poetry: Agast Which; Brgg the Shovel Down; Be Holdg, wner of the PEN Amerin Lerary Jean Ste Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratu, wner of the 2015 Natnal Book Crics Circle Award and the 2016 Kgsley Tufts Poetry Award.
In The Book of Delights, Ross Gay offers up a spired llectn of short lyric says, wrten daily over a tumultuo year, remdg of the purpose and pleasure of praisg, extollg, and celebratg ordary wonrs. Ross Gay reads “Catalog of Unabashed Gratu” at Spl This Rock Poetry Ftival 2016: Poems of Provotn & Wns, April 15, 2016 at the Natnal Geographic Grosvenor Audorium Washgton, DC.