Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with best-selling essayist and award-winning poet Ross Gay. Thi s discussion of his most recent collection of essays\, Inciting Joy\, will explore the joy we incite when we turn our attention to what bri ngs us together and to what we love.
\nRoss Gay is the author of fou r books of poetry: Against Which\; Bringing the Shovel Down\; Be 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. His fi rst collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller.
\nThis event is made poss ible by Illinois Libraries Present\, a statewide collaboration among publi c libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awar ded by the Illinois State Library\, a department of the Office of Secretar y of State\, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Libr ary Services\, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request a ccommodations\, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com
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