Background
Terrance Hayes was born on November 18, 1971, in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. He is a son of James and Ethel Hayes.
Coker University, Hartsville, South Carolina, United States
In 1994 Terrance Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coker College (now Coker University).
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
In 1997 Terrance Hayes obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
(Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested ...)
Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. Throughout, Hayes's verse dances in a kind of homemade music box, with notes that range from tender to erudite, associative to narrative, humorous to political. Hip Logic does much to capture the nuances of contemporary male African American identity and confirms Hayes's reputation as one of the most compelling new voices in American poetry.
https://www.amazon.com/Logic-National-Poetry-Terrance-Hayes/dp/0142001392/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hip+Logic&qid=1579088601&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues...)
Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues his interest in how traditions (of poetry and culture alike) can be simultaneously upended and embraced. The struggle for freedom (the wind) within containment (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality. This new book displays not only what the Los Angeles Times calls the range of a "bold virtuoso," but also the imaginative fervor of a poet in love with poetry.
https://www.amazon.com/Wind-Penguin-Poets-Terrance-Hayes/dp/0143036866/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Wind+in+a+Box&qid=1579088711&s=books&sr=1-1
2006
(In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how...)
In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presentation format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.
https://www.amazon.com/Lighthead-Poems-Penguin-Terrance-Hayes/dp/0143116967/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Lighthead&qid=1579088909&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
(In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance...)
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of these poems bear the clearest imprint yet of Hayes’s background as a visual artist, they do not strive to describe art so much as inhabit it. Thus, one poem contemplates the principle of blind contour drawing while others are inspired by maps, graphs, and assorted artists. The formal and emotional versatilities that distinguish Hayes’s award-winning poetry are unified by existential focus. Simultaneously complex and transparent, urgent and composed, How to Be Drawn is a mesmerizing achievement.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Drawn-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143126881/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=How+to+Be+Drawn&qid=1579089012&s=books&sr=1-1
2015
(In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes e...)
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered - the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Sonnets-Future-Assassin-Penguin/dp/0143133187/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=American+Sonnets+for+My+Past+and+Future+Assassin&qid=1579089264&s=books&sr=1-1
2018
Terrance Hayes was born on November 18, 1971, in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. He is a son of James and Ethel Hayes.
In 1994 Terrance Hayes received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Coker College (now Coker University). In 1997 he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
From 1999 to 2001 Terrance Hayes was an assistant professor of English at the Xavier University of Louisiana. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes served as the 2017-2018 poetry editor for New York Times Magazine. He was guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2014, the preeminent annual anthology of contemporary American poetry. His poems have appeared in ten editions of the series.
In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal constraints, Hayes considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity. Hayes’s poetry collections include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018), How to Be Drawn (2015), Lighthead (2010), Wind in a Box (2006), Hip Logic (2002), Muscular Music (1999).
(Wind in a Box, Hayes’s resonant new collection, continues...)
2006(In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes e...)
2018(Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested ...)
2002(In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance...)
2015(In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how...)
2010In July of 1997 Terrance Hayes married Yona Harvey, a poet. Now they are divorced. They have a daughter, Ua Pilar, and a son.