Reading & Discussion: Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude With Teaching Artist Luke Daly
Join us at the Just Buffalo Literary Center for an evening dedicated to “serious noticing.” As part of our city-wide In Gratitude project, poet and guest facilitator Luke Daly will lead a discussion into Ross Gay’s National Book Critics Circle Award-winning collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.
Whether you are a lifelong reader of Gay’s work or picking up the book for the first time, we will explore Gay’s open-hearted, lyrical lines and discuss how the simple act of naming our delights can become a radical tool for connection. No need to have already read the book to attend.
First 5 people to register receive a free copy of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
Almost no one has the faith Gay seems to have in poetry’s ability to tap grace from the happenings of his life. . . . He looks to the act of writing as real alchemy, and death, disappointment, and inequity become honey in his hands.
— Paris Review
“I’m bowled over by how Ross Gay reaches again and again toward stating what’s beautiful, what’s sweet, what’s most emotionally moving to him: he is genuinely ‘unabashed.’ He is definitely interested in the sentimental, but the poems don’t feel remotely treacly to me. They feel bold and wild and weird.”
— American Poetry Review
Date
- Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Time
- 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
- 468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor, Buffalo, NY 14203
Featured Artist
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Luke DalyPoet, WriterLuke Daly writes and lives in Buffalo, NY, where Lake Erie ends and the Niagara River begins. His work can be found in Subtropics, Basalt, Poetry City USA, and Ghost City Review. He teaches full time as a senior lecturer in Rochester Institute of Technology’s University Writing Program.
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