ROSS GAY ON THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS

MAJOR JACKSON is the author of six volumes of poetry. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The poetry editor of the Harvard Review and the host of the podcast The Slowdown, Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

ROSS GAY is the author of Inciting Joy: Essays, The Book of Delights: Essays, and four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the co-author, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, of the chapbook Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens, in addition to being co-author, with Richard Wehrenberg Jr., of the chapbook River. Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is also a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a nonprofit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project.