Writing Hope at The End of A World with Ross Gay

About the Event

Friday, Dec. 1
6-7:15 PM ET

virtual event; open to the public
including all mentees, mentors & alum
required for Poetry 360 mentees

Join us for an evening exploring what it means to experience hope and radical joy during periods of personal and political tumult.

As part of Girls Write Now’s Friday Night Salon Series and Poetry 360 Learning Journey, Ross Gay will discuss his award-winning book of poems, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. We will dialogue directly with Gay about his work, learning how language can help us imagine and embody new worlds, as we experiment with generative poetry prompts.

This event is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, a partnership with Arts Midwest.

Registration will be capped to allow for intimate discussion. Save your spot now!

Learn more about Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude…

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

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