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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 September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work. Life and education Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Coker University and an M.F.A. from the University of Pittsburgh writing program. 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. Currently, he teaches at New York University. Hayes lives in Manhattan, and he and his ex-wife, the poet Yona Harvey, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, share the custody of their two children. Career Hayes's first book of poetry, Muscular Music (1999), won both a Whiting Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. 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. He won the National Book Award for Lighthead (in which he invented the "golden shovel" poetic form). Hayes's 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, Poetry, and The Adroit Journal. 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." In September 2014, he was honored as one of the 21 2014 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In January 2017, Hayes was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2018, Hayes premiered Cycles of My Being commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Carnegie Hall with music by Tyshawn Sorey starring Lawrence Brownlee. This 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 Opera Philadelphia and released on their digital channel. The poetry was from Hayes' book American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. In 2023, Hayes, alongside Nancy Krygowski and Jeffrey McDaniel, was named editor of the Pitt Poetry Series. Awards 2023: Troy University's Hall-Waters Prize 2020: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin 2014: MacArthur Foundation Fellow 2011: United States Artists Zell Fellow for Literature 2010: National Book Award for Poetry, for Lighthead National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2009: Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry 2005 selection James Laughlin Award runner-up, from the Academy of American Poets 2001: National Poetry Series, for Hip Logic Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Muscular Music (1999) 1999: Whiting Award Bibliography Poetry Collections — (1999). Muscular music. Tia Chucha Press. — (2002). Hip Logic. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-200139-4. — (2006). Muscular music. Reprint. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 9780887484384. — (2006). Wind in a Box. Penguin Books. ISBN 9781440626982. — (2010). Lighthead. Penguin Books. ISBN 9781440626982.—winner of the National Book Award — (2015). How to Be Drawn. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143126881. — (2018). American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143133186. — (2023) So to Speak. Penguin. | ISBN 9780143137726. Ebook | ISBN 9780593511848. Audiobook | ISBN 9780593684009 — (2023) Watch Your Language. Penguin. ISBN 9780143137733. List of poems Nonfiction — (2018). To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight. Wave Books. ISBN 978-1-940696-61-4. References External links Official website Essays, poems, video of Terrance Hayes at Poets.org Profile and poems of Terrance Hayes, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation. Video: Online NewsHour: Report > Pittsburgh Poet Terrance Hayes > April 24, 2008 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 at the Wayback Machine (archived December 9, 2008) Audio: Terrance Hayes Reading for From the Fishouse at the Wayback Machine (archived April 11, 2012) Library of Congress Online Catalog > Terrance Hayes pabook.libraries > Terrance Hayes Profile at The Whiting Foundation. Discover the Terrance Hayes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Terrance Hayes books.