April 28, 2023 On Campus
The Department of English Presents
Author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and The Book of Delights, a New York Times nonfiction best-seller
Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry as well as a new prose collection, Inciting Joy (2022). His work is inspired by an array of subjects, including the relation between joy and sorrow, the need for people to tend to one another, his own tending to a community garden, and expressing gratitude for everyday delights.
Gay has appeared in podcasts such as NPR’s This American Life and All Things Considered and is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call It Ballin’. Gay’s honors include fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently the Ruth Lilly Professor of English at Indiana University.
A book signing will follow Gay’s reading and Q&A.
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Sandra Isham Vreeland Fund
Kemper AuditoriumAn evening with poet Ross Gay
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Kemper AuditoriumThe Department of English Presents
Author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and The Book of Delights, a New York Times nonfiction best-seller
Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry as well as a new prose collection, Inciting Joy (2022). His work is inspired by an array of subjects, including the relation between joy and sorrow, the need for people to tend to one another, his own tending to a community garden, and expressing gratitude for everyday delights.
Gay has appeared in podcasts such as NPR’s This American Life and All Things Considered and is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call It Ballin’. Gay’s honors include fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is currently the Ruth Lilly Professor of English at Indiana University.
A book signing will follow Gay’s reading and Q&A.
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Sandra Isham Vreeland Fund