The second installment of the 2021–22 Word Works season is just a few days away! Tune in this Friday, November 12 to hear poet Ross Gay discuss Joy and the Cover. From a book of meditations on Joy,Gay’s talk, Joy and the Cover, is a riff on the riff, a cover of the cover, a wondering about the sight and site of ever-citational life (which includes writing!). He will briefly cover Nina Simone, Dionne Warwick and Luther Vandross, Gary Payton and Jason Williams, among way too many others even more briefly.
In an interview with NPR, Gay shared the following thoughts on exploring and discussing joy:
“So I'm writing about joy. The thing is, I'm not exactly sure what joy is. I'm constantly trying to wonder about it. In fact, I'd tell you, that's one little definition of freedom I enjoy: wondering about joy with other people. I am writing because I'm thinking about these moments where I have felt the immense experience of joy.”
