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Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.\r\n\r\n\"In this talk, called 'Getting Lost', we will talk about, and maybe actually enter into, the virtues and quandaries of not knowing what the hell we're doing. We will talk some, but we will probably also do some mapping and drawing and building and definitely some dreaming.\"\r\n\r\nRoss Gay is interested in joy.\r\n\r\nRoss Gay wants to understand joy.\r\n\r\nRoss Gay is curious about joy.\r\n\r\nRoss Gay studies joy.\r\n\r\nSomething like that.\r\n ~\r\n\r\nRoss 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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