AN EVENING WITH ROSS GAY, 7 to 8:30 p.m. today, Hamilton Library, Franklin College, 101 Branigin Blvd. Free.
Gay has emerged as a unique voice in modern poetry. The Indiana University professor has released three books of poems, “Against Which,” “Bringing the Shovel Down” and “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” the latter of which won Gay the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Award. His collection of essays, “The Book of Delights,” was released earlier this year. The presentation is part of Franklin College’s Carlson-Stauffer Visiting Writers Series.
CARMEL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 7 p.m. Saturday, doors open at 5:30; Mallow Run Winery, 6964 W. Whiteland Road, Bargersville.
One of the Midwest’s best symphony orchestras comes to Johnson County as one of the final events of Mallow Run’s Picnic Concert Series. Enjoy rousing arrangements and we’ll-known songs, underneath the night sky while sitting on the winery’s spacious lawn. Picnics are welcome, and food trucks will be available onsite. Mallow Run will be selling it’s full slate of wines to sip on while you listen. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 the day of.
