EP Library Hosts Online Conversation With Ross Gay ‘Inciting Joy’ – Evergreen Park, IL Patch

EVERGREEN PARK, IL — Begin the new year on a joyful note with best-selling essayist and award-winning poet Ross Gay, who will discuss his most recent collection of essays, “Inciting Joy.” The online event featuring Gay and performance poet Dan “Sully” Sullivan will be hosted by the Evergreen Park Public Library starting at 7 p.m. CT Wednesday, Jan. 11.

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.

Dan “Sully” Sullivan is a three-time Chicago Poetry Slam Champion. His poems and performances have been featured on HBO Def Poetry Jam, WGN Morning News, and National Public Radio. Sully’s first full-length book of poems, The Blue Line Home, is available from EM-Press.