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Public Reading | Ross Gay

Event Type
Performance
Sponsor
Humanities Research Institute
Location
Alice Campbell Alumni Center BallRoom
Date
Apr 16, 2025   7:30 pm  
Speaker
Ross Gay
Contact
Humanities Research Institute
E-Mail
info-HRI@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

A public reading and book signing with award-winning poet and essayist Ross Gay. The book will be available for purchasing and signing. 

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against WhichBringing the Shovel DownBe Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023. 

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