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Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes is a MacArthur Fellow and author, most recently, of American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight. He won the National Book Award for Lighthead.

Articles

Poetry

Remembering poets Lynda Hull and Michael S. Harper, with original portraits

Terrance Hayes

A series of creative reflections on why Yusef Komunyakaa remains one of our greatest living writers and what it means to be a Black Jazz Poet.

Terrance Hayes
Poetry

One side of the flag is yours, one side
Is theirs.

Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes

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