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Carmen Rojas was the co-founder and former CEO of The Workers Lab, an innovation lab focused on making real the promises of safety, dignity, and mobility to all working people.
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In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. In a recent episode of Krista Tippett’s podcast, On Being, poet Ross Gay said, “It is joy by which the labor that will make the life that I want, possible. To make a request for open captioning, please contact us at boxoffice@lectures.org or 206.621.2230 x10.
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Town Hall Seattle—The Great Hall
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
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The title poem in his most recent, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, is a long piece which, Gay told the Los Angeles Times, was begun as a “way to publicly imagine what it means for a person to be adamantly in love with his life. Carmen holds a Ph.D. To make a request for interpretation, please contact us at boxoffice@lectures.org or 206.621.2230 x10, or select “Sign Language Interpretation” from the Access Requirements section during your ticket checkout process and we will contact you to confirm details.
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Besides being a disciple of joy, Ross Gay is a gardener, a painter, a professor, a basketball player, and a founding member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a free-fruit-for-all non-profit focused on food, justice, and joy.
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Q&A with Dr. Carmen Rojas.
The format for this evening will be a keynote and reading by Ross Gay, followed by a conversation with Dr.
Carmen Rojas.
Ross Gay is interested in joy.
Ross Gay wants to understand joy.
Ross Gay is curious about joy.
Ross Gay studies joy.
Something like that.
Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.
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A limited number of student/educator tickets are available. She was the editor of How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton and So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth.