New York Times best-selling author Ross Gay will kickstart the on Thurs., Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, G70 Klarman Hall. A poet and essayist, Gay will read from his most recent collection of essays, “Inciting Joy” and other works. The Reading Series is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts & Sciences (A&S).
Ross Gay
When asked why people who attend his readings misread his perspective on joy, in a Gay said, “There are plenty of people who think that joy is not serious. But I’m arguing for joy as a rigorous emotion that excludes no one and the repression of which is a kind of alienation, a suggestion that we ought to be alienated from one another.”
Gay is the author of four books of poetry: “Against Which,” “Bringing the Shovel Down;” “Be Holding,” which won the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award, and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” which received the 2015 ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, “The Book of Delights,” was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller.
The Feb. 9 reading will be free and open to the public with a reception and book signing will follow. Attendees can purchase copies of “Inciting Joy” and other books by Gay after the reading, courtesy of .
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