Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil Read “Letters from Two Gardens”
Poets Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil read from their poetry correspondence, “Letters from Two Gardens ,” tracing the shape of a year as experienced through each of their gardens.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems, including, most recently, Oceanic , winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and two essay collections, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments , and the forthcoming Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees . Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Mississippi Arts Council, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry , the New York Times Magazine , ESPN , and Tin House . She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program.
