Due to the forecasted high heat index, the workshop will be held on the second floor of Lafayette College’s Williams Visual Arts Building, 243 N. Third St., Easton.
Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
In addition to his poetry, he has released three collections of essays: Book of Delights (2019), a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy (2022); and The Book of (More) Delights (2023).
A Lafayette College alumnus, Gay is a professor of English at Indiana University.
The event is part of the Karl Stirner Arts Trail’s Poetry in the Wild Project, which is supported in part with funding from the Hotel Tax grant programs through Northampton County’s Department of Community & Economic Development, a Crayola Community Grant, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts.
