Kick off your new year with a conversation about joy with best-selling essayist and award-winning poet Ross Gay, who will discuss his most recent collection of essays, Inciting Joy, with performance poet Dan “Sully” Sullivan.  

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award, 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.

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