Poet Ross Gay To Talk About Newest Work – CapeNews.net
Titcomb’s Bookshop is celebrating National Poetry Month on Tuesday, April 27, with a virtual event featuring poet and educator Ross Gay. Start time is 7 PM.
Mr. Gay is the author most recently of the book-length poem, “Be Holding,” released in September 2020, as well as the poetry collections “Against Which,” “Bringing the Shovel Down,” “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens,” with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and “River” with Rose Wehrenberg. His collection of essays, “The Book of Delights,” was released in 2019.
“Be Holding” is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and 1980s as a small forward for the Philadelphia 76ers. Mr. Gay connects Dr. J’s famous move from the 1980 NBA finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pickup basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love.
Mr. Gay teaches poetry at Indiana University.
Tickets for the event range from $20 to $30 and include virtual admission, plus one copy of “Be Holding.” A link to register for the event can be found on the Titcomb’s website.