EVENT: Prize-winning poet Terrance Hayes to read at International Poetry Forum
Prize-winning Poet Terrance Hayes will give a poetry reading at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Oakland, Pittsburgh, Pa., at 8 p.m., January 30, 2008.
The event is hosted by the International Poetry Forum, for decades now the most impressive venue in the Appalachian region for poets of national and international acclaim.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for students or seniors. For tickets and information contact the International Poetry Forum at (412) 621-9893 or by email at IPF1@earthlink.net.
Hayes is a creative writing professor at Carnegie Mellon. He and his wife, poet Yona Harvey, have two children.
Tracy K. Smith, guest editor of Guernica / a magazine of art & politics, has written of a “buoyant and boundless sense of language” Hayes brings to his poems. At poets.org, Cornelius Eady says of Hayes:
“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.”
Sample a poem by Terrance Hayes:
THE BLUE TERRANCE
If you subtract the minor losses,
you can return to your childhood too:
the blackboard chalked with crosses,
the math teacher’s toe ring.
…
For rest of the poem, in .pdf, click this link to Carnegie Mellon English Department.
His books:
“Hip Logic” (Penguin, 2002)
“Muscular Music” (Tia Chucha Press, 1999)
“Wind in a Box” (Penguin, 2006)
Click here for Hayes on NPR last year, on “the poetics of masculinity.”
