The Book of Delights: An Evening with Ross Gay
Thursday, October 30, 2025
ALI Auditorium
7:30pm
This is the 2025 Griz Read Lecture
This event is free and open to the community. Seats will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Ross Gay studies joy. He 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. In addition to his poetry, he has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights, the 2025 Griz Read selection, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023.