{"id":24203,"date":"2026-02-17T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24203"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:47:57","slug":"renown-poet-ross-gay-featured-feb-19-for-virtual-triptych-author-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/02\/17\/renown-poet-ross-gay-featured-feb-19-for-virtual-triptych-author-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Ross Gay featured Feb. 19 for virtual Triptych author series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/chass.udmercy.edu\/academics\/eng\/\">English Department<\/a> welcomes poet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rossgay.net\/about\">Ross Gay<\/a>, who will read his work for the 2026 Triptych series on <strong>Thursday, Feb. 19<\/strong> <strong>at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong> via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Triptych is a virtual reading series featuring award-winning authors in conversation with Detroit Mercy\u2019s Poet-in-Residence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/clae\/english\/adjunct-facuty\/stacy-gnall\">Stacy Gnall<\/a>. Triptych\u00a0events are free and open to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Gay is the author of four books of poetry:\u00a0<i>Against Which;\u00a0Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding<\/i>, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award;\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude<\/i>, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Gay has released three collections of essays \u2014 <i>The Book of Delights<\/i> (a New York Times bestseller), <i>Inciting Joy <\/i>and\u00a0<i>The Book of (More) Delights<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Triptych events are held via Zoom on third Thursdays in January, February and March, from 6:30-8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/detroitmercyenglish.com\/2026\/01\/27\/poetry-reading-by-cate-marvin-inspires-students-to-take-risks-in-their-writing\/\">Check out this Between the Pages profile of our January Triptych event with poet Cate Marvin.<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><strong>Save the dates:<\/strong><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Next Triptych 2026 series (via Zoom) featuring Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, <strong>Thursday, March 19, at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Triptych+1: Student Reading: Live and in-person at Book Suey Bookstore Cooperative in Hamtramck, <strong>Thursday, April 16, at 6:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/detroitmercyenglish\"><strong>Register here!<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24828 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/Gay-Triptych.jpg?resize=612%2C345&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/Gay-Triptych.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/Gay-Triptych.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/Gay-Triptych.jpg?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy&#8217;s English Department will host poet Ross Gay in the second of three Triptych virtual author series on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[6164,6165,6523,198,5716,7223,5858,5872],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/Gay-Triptych.jpg?fit=825%2C464&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6in","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24203"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24829,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24203\/revisions\/24829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}