Award-winning American poet Ross Gay will stir our spirits and invite us to notice the spectacular beauty of the natural world with an evening of live poetry in Hammer4 Studio. Mr. Gay will perform selections from Catalog of Unabashed Catalog and other works. Afterward, SJSU Professor Shannon Rose Riley will facilitate a conversation on the ecological and cultural aspects of Gay's work. The event is free and open to the public; tickets are required. 

Supported by the College of Humanities & the Arts’ Artistic Excellence Programming Grant, the Office of the Provost, the College of Social Sciences, the Department of English & Comparative Literature, the Department of Humanities (Creative Arts Program and Environmental Humanities Program), and The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.