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Illinois Libraries Present: Inciting Joy

A Conversation with Ross Gay

2023-01-11 19:00:00 2023-01-11 20:00:00 America/Chicago Illinois Libraries Present: Inciting Joy Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with award-winning poet Ross Gay. This discussion will explore the joy we incite when we turn our attention to being together and to what we love. Virtual -

Wednesday, January 11
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-01-11 19:00:00 2023-01-11 20:00:00 America/Chicago Illinois Libraries Present: Inciting Joy Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with award-winning poet Ross Gay. This discussion will explore the joy we incite when we turn our attention to being together and to what we love. Virtual -

Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with award-winning poet Ross Gay. This discussion will explore the joy we incite when we turn our attention to being together and to what we love.

Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with best-selling essayist and award-winning poet Ross Gay. This discussion of his most recent collection of essays, Inciting Joy, will explore the joy we incite when we turn our attention to what brings us together and to what we love.

Ross Gay is the author of four 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 first collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller.

This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com

AGE GROUP: | High School | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Entertainment | Culture | Books |

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