Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010.[ In 2014, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.]
He was a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University until 2013, then taught in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Life and education
Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina
Career
1999-2013
From 1999 to 2001, he taught at Xavier University of Louisiana, and in 2001 he became a creative writing professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Hayes's first book of poetry, Muscular Music (1999), won both a Whiting Awards and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.[ (in which he invented the "golden shovel" poetic form),][Dora Malech (December 22, 2016), The End of the Line: Terrance Hayes and Formal Innovation, in The Kenyon Review. Retrieved February 15, 2020.] in 2010.
By 2009, Hayes' poems had appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Fence, The Kenyon Review, Jubilat, Harvard Review, West Branch, Poetry, and The Adroit Journal.
He was a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University until 2013, at which time he joined the faculty at the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
2014-present
As of 2014, he was a member of the University of Pittsburgh's English faculty.
In January 2017, Hayes was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
In 2018, Hayes premiered Cycles of My Being, which had been commissioned by the Opera Philadelphia, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Carnegie Hall. With music by Tyshawn Sorey and starring Lawrence Brownlee, the song cycles center on what it means to be a Black man living in America today. In 2020, the song cycle was made into a film by the Opera Philadelphia and released on their digital channel. The poetry was from Hayes' book American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
In 2022, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In January 2022, he was one of several interim poetry editors at Pitt Poetry Series, advising the Pitt Press on selection of poetry manuscripts.
He released the poetry collection So To Speak in 2023.
Awards
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National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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James Laughlin Award runner-up, from the Academy of American Poets
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1999: Whiting Awards
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1999: Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Muscular Music
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2001: National Poetry Series, for Hip Logic
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2005: Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry 2005 selection
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2009: Guggenheim Fellowship
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2010: National Book Award for Poetry, for Lighthead
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2011: United States Artists Zell Fellow for Literature
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2014: MacArthur Foundation Fellow
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2020: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
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2023: Troy University's Hall-Waters Prize
Personal life
Hayes and his ex-wife, the poet and professor Yona Harvey, have two children.
Bibliography
Poetry
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—winner of the National Book Award
[(With acceptance speech, reading, interview, and other materials.)]
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— (2023) So to Speak. Penguin. | ISBN 9780143137726. Ebook | ISBN 9780593511848. Audiobook | ISBN 9780593684009
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— (2023) Watch Your Language. Penguin. ISBN 9780143137733.
- List of poems
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| "Ars poetica with bacon" | 2016 | | |
| "American Sonnet for the New Year" | 2019 | | |
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Nonfiction
See also
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List of poets from the United States
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List of University of Pittsburgh alumni
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List of New York University faculty
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List of Spring Valley High School alumni
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