Lecture Series

Terrence Hayes

Terrence Hayes

Terrence Hayes

Description

Terrance Hayes is a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. His first book, Muscular Music, won a Whiting Writers Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His second book, Hip Logic (Penguin 2002), was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for both the Los Angeles Time Book Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Wind In a Box (Penguin 2006), a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award finalist, was named one of the best books of 2006 by Publishers Weekly. How to Be Drawn received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. Lighthead, was winner of the 2010 National Book Award. His sixth poetry collection, American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the TS Eliot Prize, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Literary Prize for Fiction & Poetry, the LA Times Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award.

The 2019 Baine Lecture is a free, public program, and begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Bondurant Auditorium.

Publication Date

11-6-2019

Relational Format

presentation

Disciplines

Creative Writing | Poetry

Terrence Hayes

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