Gay is the author of four books of poetry: \u201cAgainst Which,\u201d \u201cBringing the Shovel Down,\u201d \u201cBe Holding,\u201d winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and \u201cCatalog of Unabashed Gratitude,\u201d winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, \u201cThe Book of Delights,\u201d was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller.<\/p>\n

Dan \u201cSully\u201d 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\u2019s first full-length book of poems, The Blue Line Home, is available from EM-Press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nFavorite <\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EVERGREEN PARK, IL \u2014 Begin the new year on a joyful note with best-selling essayist and award-winning poet Ross Gay,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gaynewstoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}