Terrance Hayes Biography And Wiki

Terrance Hayes is an American poet and educator. He has a total of seven poetry collections. He won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010 with the help of his collection titled ‘Lighthead’ (2010). His first book of poetry, ‘Muscular Music’, won two awards; a Whiting Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

10 Quick Facts About Terrance Hayes

Name: Terrance Hayes
Age: 48 years old
Birthday:18 November
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Height: Average
Nationality: American
Occupation: Poet and educator
Marital Status: Divorced
Salary: To be updated
Net worth: To be updated

Terrance Hayes Age And Birthday

Hayes was born on 18 November 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. He is 48 years old as of 2019. Hayes celebrates his birthday on the 18th of November every year.

Terrance Hayes Height And Weight

Hayes appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available.

We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.

Terrance Hayes Parents And Siblings – Family

After doing our research, details about his parents are not available and it is also not known if he has any siblings. This section is under review and will be updated once the information is available.

Terrance Hayes Wife, Spouse, Married, Divorced

Terrance was married to Yona Harvey. The couple later divorced. They share the custody of their two children. Yona and Terrance met at a Cave Canem retreat for black poets in 1996.

Terrance Hayes Background, Childhood, Education, New York, NYU, Pittsburgh – Early Life

Hayes was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina. He was educated at Coker College and the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree and an M.F.A. respectively.

Terrance was a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University up to 2013. From there, he joined the faculty at the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. As of today, Hayes teaches at New York University.

Terrance Hayes Net Worth

Hayes has been in the media industry for quite a long time. He has no doubt amassed a huge fortune with the bulk of his wealth coming from His professional poetry career. Despite his obvious riches, Hayes prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

However, the specifics about his assets and liabilities are still under review making it difficult to establish his actual net worth. His salary is also undisclosed.

Terrance Hayes Poems, Poet, Poetry – Career

Lighthead

Lighthead is an award-winning collection by Hayes. It was released in 2010. It won the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry.

In the collection, Hayes looks into how we construct experience. It presents the lightheadedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time.

American Sonnets

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin was released in 2018. It has a collection of over seventy sonnets by Hayes. It was written in 2016 after the American elections. It focuses on topics such as racism, politics, Masculinity among others.

Muscular Music

Muscular Music was released in 1999. It is Hayes’s first book of poetry. It won two awards; a Whiting Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Golden Shovel

A golden shovel is a poetic form in which the last word of each line forms a second, pre-existing poem, to which the poet is paying homage. This style was invented by Terrance Hayes through his poem, ‘Golden Shovel’.

How To Be Drawn

How to Be Drawn is a poetry collection. It addresses themes of racial individuality, social prejudices, and personal losses in everyday life. The collection mainly emphasizes the need for self-care for an individual’s image or personal hardships. It was published in 2015 by the Penguin Group.

Terrance Hayes Ars Poetica, The New Yorker

From www.newyorker.com

Fortunately, the family, anxious about its diminishing
food supply, encountered a small, possibly hostile pig
along the way. The daughter happened upon it first
pushing its scuffed snout against something hidden
at the base of a thornbush: a blood-covered egg, maybe,
or small rubber ball exactly like the sort that snapped
from the paddle my mother used to beat me with
when I let her down. At the time the father and mother
were tangled in some immemorial dispute about cause
and effect: who’d harmed whom first, how jealousy
did not, in fact, begin as jealousy but as desperation.

When the daughter called out to them, they turned
to see her lift the pig, it was no heavier than an orphan,
from the bushes and then set it down in their path.

They waited to see whether the pig might idle forward
with them until they made camp or wander back toward
the home they’d abandoned to war. Night, enclosed
in small drops of rain, began to fall upon them.

“Consequence” is the word that splintered my mind.
Walking a path in the dark is about something
the way a family is about something. Like the pig,
I too, wanted to reach through the thorns for the egg
or ball, believing it was a symbol of things to come.

I wanted to roll it in my palm like the head
of a small redbird until it sang to me. I wanted
to know how my mother passed her days having
never touched her husband’s asshole, for example.

Which parts of your body have never been touched,
I wanted to ask. I’d been hired to lead the family
from danger to a territory full of more seeds than bullets,
but, truth was, in the darkness there was no telling
what was rooting in the soil. Plots of complete silence,
romantics posing in a field bludgeoned by shame.

The heart, biologically speaking, is ugly as it pumps
its passion and fear down the veins. Which is to say,
starting out we have no wounds to speak of
beyond the ways our parents expressed their love.

We were never sure what the pig was after or whether
it was, in fact, not a pig but some single-minded soul
despair turned into a pig, some devil worthy of mercy.
Without giving away the enigmatic ending, I will say,
when we swallowed the flesh, our eyes were closed.

Terrance Hayes Accomplishments, Awards

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

Terrance Hayes Poems Collections

Muscular music
Hip Logic
Muscular music
Wind in a Box
Lighthead
How to Be Drawn
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Terrance Hayes

Frequently Asked Questions About Terrance Hayes

Who is Terrance Hayes?

Terrance Hayes is an American poet and educator. He has a total of seven poetry collections.

How old is Terrance Hayes?

Hayes was born on 18 November 1971 in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. He is 48 years old as of 2019.

How tall is Terrance Hayes?

He has not shared his height with the public. His height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.

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