As part of the Distinguished Writers Series, the Binghamton Center for Writers will host a virtual reading and conversation with Ross Gay at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 18. Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). He is also the author of a collection of essays, The Book of Delights (Algonquin Books, 2019). Samples of his work are available online, including an excerpt from Be Holding and the related essay “Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved?”  The event will be held over Zoom, or you can like our page on Facebook to receive notification of the event streaming live.