Terrance Hayes
Music, and jazz in particular, has played a crucial role in TERRANCE HAYES’ work as a poet. He has a deep connection to music, and many of his poems seem to be propelled by his listening for a rhythm or melody that he builds and then improvises on. Hayes is also a painter, and seems to improvise with imagery as much as he does with sound. The poems that result remain rooted in essential, ancient questions about identity, history, family, love, society and race. Hayes is the author of Lighthead (2010), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002), which won the 2001 National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
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Schedule
THURSDAY
11:00-12:15
Reading and Conversation
Eavan Boland, Terrance Hayes, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Prudential Hall
3:30-4:30
Conversation: Mirror Blossom Urn Collage
Eduardo C. Corral, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church
7:30-10:00
POETRY SAMPLER
Richard Blanco, Eavan Boland, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Joseph Millar, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
FRIDAY
10:50-11:50am
Conversation: Tell All the Truth, But Tell It Slant
Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Larissa Szporluk
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church
12:10-1:10pm
Festival Poet Readings
Dan Bellm, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Idra Novey, Gregory Pardlo
North Star Academy Great Room
6:30-10:00pm
Readings & Music
Terrance Hayes, Thomas Lux, Fanny Howe, Jane Hirshfield, Kurtis Lamkin
Prudential Hall
SATURDAY
9:00-10:10
Conversation: Mirror Blossom Urn Collage
Henri Cole, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Larissa Szporluk
Victoria Theater
12:00-1:10
Festival Poets Reading
Emily Fragos, Terrance Hayes, Joan Seigel
North Star Academy Great Room
1:30-2:40
Conversation: American Poetries
Terrance Hayes, Rachel McKibbens, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk
Victoria Theater
SUNDAY
9:00-10:10
Festival Poet Readings
Sharon Dolin, Terrance Hayes, Joseph Millar, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Prudential Hall
10:30-11:40
Conversation: On Craft
Terrance Hayes
Newark Museum
12:00-1:10
Conversation: Where We're From: A Sense of Place
Eavan Boland, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine
North Star Academy Great Room