September 30: Poetry & Prose with Ross Gay and Curtis Bauer

Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry & Prose Series. Ross Gay and Curtis Bauer will read. The event will start at 4:45 pm on Zoom.  Register for the event at dartgo.org/poetry-and-prose.

Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019.

Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard. Ross teaches at Indiana University.

Curtis Bauer is the author of three poetry collections, most recently American Selfie (Barrow Street Press, 2019), forthcoming in Spanish translation as Selfi Americano by Vaso Roto Ediciones (November 2021). He is also a translator of Spanish poetry and prose. His translations include: Eros is More, by Juan Antonio González Iglesias; and From Behind What Landscape, by Luis Muñoz. He splits his time between the Basque Country in Spain and the Texas panhandle where he is a professor of comparative literature at Texas Tech University.