![]() ![]() The annual writer-in-residence program is hosted by the college’s Institute for the Humanities and the Department of English. This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Humanities Council as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. Mississippi’s Poet Laureate and MSU English Professor Catherine Pierce will moderate a question-and-answer period following the program, which annually connects noted authors with MSU students and the wider public for mentoring and training in writing. event, which is free and open to the public, on the Institute’s Facebook page. Gay will read selections from his poetry and answer questions during the March 1, 7:30 p.m. ![]() He also is an English professor at Indiana University Bloomington. ![]() ![]() Gay is author of the New York Times best-selling collection of essays “The Book of Delights” (Algonquin Books, 2019), as well as several collections of poetry, including “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” (2015), winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. STARKVILLE, Miss.-Mississippi State University is hosting award-winning author Ross Gay for an upcoming virtual writer-in-residence program, an annual campus event of the College of Arts and Sciences. ![]()
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