Reading & Discussion: Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude With Joshua Thermidor
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 teaching artist Joshua Thermidor 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.
First 5 people to register receive a free copy of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.
Copies of Ross Gay’s books can be found at independent bookstores across Buffalo.
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
Featured Artist
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Joshua ThermidorPoet + PhotographerJoshua Thermidor is a writer and visual artist of the Haitian diaspora who believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of all oppressed people.
His photographs have appeared in TIME, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and NBC News. His poems and prose have appeared in River Styx, The Seventh Wave, Spotlights: Habibi Funk Print and elsewhere.
He currently serves as Editor of Creative Nonfiction at Brink Literary and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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