MCC and the Connecticut Poetry Circuit To Sponsor Ross Gay

Manchester CT

19 February, 2021

4:04 PM

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Press release from Manchester Community College: Feb. 19, 2021 Manchester Community College, home of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, is joining with the circuit to sponsor author and poet Ross Gay on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 8 p.m. Gay will read from his work live via WebEx. To attend the WebEx event, visit https://ctedu.webex.com/meet/TBotomcc.commnet.edu. Gay is author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude and was the winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Gay also is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin'. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University. For more information about Gay and to read some of his work, visit his website: www.rossgay.net. This press release was produced by Manchester Community College. The views expressed here are the author's own.