Subscribe to our newsletter
Terrance Hayes’s recent publications include So to Speak, a collection of poems, and Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, a collection of visual and lyric essays. Learn more >

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. More about this book >


In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. More about this book >
Terrance Hayes’s (Chair) recent publications include So to Speak, a collection of poems, and Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, a collection of visual and lyric essays. His honors include the National Book Award for Poetry, the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. He is a distinguished Silver Professor at New York University.
(Photo credit: Dirk Skiba)
