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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award. His other poetry collections are So to Speak, How to Be Drawn, Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and Muscular Music. He is also the author of To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight, winner of the 2019 Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hayes lives in New York City, where he is a professor of creative writing at New York University
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Terrance Hayes Remembers Lucie Brock-Broido and Her Immortal Poetic Cats

“Cats purred seeking the contours of her language between their ears.”
July 25, 2023  By Terrance Hayes
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“Homage To Gertrude Badu,” A Poem by Terrance Hayes

From the Collection So to Speak
July 19, 2023  By Terrance Hayes
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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin

From Terrance Hayes's Latest Poetry Collection
June 19, 2018  By Terrance Hayes
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AMERICAN SONNET FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN

New Poems by Terrance Hayes
July 19, 2017  By Terrance Hayes
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