Terrance Hayes in 2014. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Wikimedia Commons.
Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an African-American poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina, He earned a B.A. from Coker College and an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh writing program.[1]
He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his wife, poet Yona Harvey, and their children.[3][4]
His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Fence, the Kenyon Review, Jubilat, Harvard Review, West Branch and Poetry.[5]
Writing[]
In praising Hayes's work, Cornelius Eady has said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world."[1]
Recognition[]
His recent poetry collection Lighthead (Penguin, 2010) won the National Book Award for Poetry. His second collection, Hip Logic (2002), won the National Poetry Series, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.[1] His first book of poetry, Muscular Music (1999), won both the Whiting Writers Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.[6]
Awards[]
- 2011 United States Artists Zell Fellow for Literature [7]
- 2010 National Book Award for Poetry, for Lighthead
- Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry 2005 selection
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship[8]
- James Laughlin Award runner-up, from the Academy of American Poets[1]
- Whiting Writers Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Muscular Music (1999)[9]
- 2001 National Poetry Series, for Hip Logic
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Muscular Music. Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1999; Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.
- Hip Logic. New York: Penguin, 2002.
- Wind in a Box. New York: Penguin, 2006.
- Lighthead. New York: Penguin, 2010.
- Who Are the Tribes: Poems and drawins. Florence, MA: Pilot Books, 2011.
- How to Be Drawn. New York: Penguin, 2015.
Edited[]
- The Best American Poetry, 2014 (edited with David Lehman). New York: Scribner Poetry, 2014.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[10]
Terrance Hayes reads his poem "How to Draw an Invisible Man"
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Terrance Hayes, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Oct. 4, 2015.
- ↑ Carnegie Mellon University > English Department - Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing Faculty > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ Smith College Poetry Center > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ From the Fishouse > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ John Simom Guggenheim Memorial Foundation >2009 Fellow in Creative Arts - Poetry > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ Smith College Poetry Center > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ United States Artists Official Website[1]
- ↑ John Simom Guggenheim Memorial Foundation >2009 Fellow in Creative Arts - Poetry > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ Smith College Poetry Center > Terrance Hayes Bio
- ↑ Search results = au:Terrance Hayes, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 4, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Blue Terrance"
- "Carp Poem"
- Three poems at Guernica
- Terrance Hayes profile & 9 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Terrance Hayes b. 1971 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Audio: Terrance Hayes Reading for From the Fishouse
- Terrance Hayes at YouTube
- Video: Online NewsHour: Report > Pittsburgh Poet Terrance Hayes > April 24, 2008
- Books
- Terrance Hayes at Amazon.com
- About
- Hayes, Terrance at Pennsylvania Center for the Book
- Terrance Hayes Official website
- Interview: The Missouri Review > Issue 29.4, Winter 2006 > A Conversation with Terrance Hayes by Jason Koo
- "My Aesthetic Schizophrenia: An Interview with Terrence Hayes", Jonathan Moody, nidus, Winter 2005
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