![]() ![]() His first collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. 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. Braynon, Chairperson of the board for the Black Archives and Historic Lyric Theater, and Miami-Dade County Poetry Ambassador Nicole Tallman on the themes found in the book and the importance of poetry and literature in the civic life of a community.įree copies of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude will be distributed to attendees while supplies last. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ross Gay will be in conversation with M rs. Animated by what he has called the “discipline of gratitude,” the collection considers sorrow’s potential, grounded in the rhythms and abundance of the natural world: the compost that gives way to rich soil, the decay that reveals seeds, the branches that must be trimmed to make room for new growth. In his award-winning poetry collection, Gay demonstrates the practice of gratitude while never losing sight of the loss that animates it. The 2023 Big Read Miami keynote address features award-winning poet, educator, and community gardener Ross Gay on this year’s featured title, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. ![]()
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