Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes’s most recent publications include American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin, which won the 2019 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and To Float in the Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation With Etheridge Knight, which was the winner of the 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes is a professor of English at New York University.

Essay Online

Airport Code

By Terrance Hayes

A dispatch from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.

Poetry The Ecstasy issue

Things Seen Right & Left Without Glasses

By Terrance Hayes

“Sometimes I feel like a motherless town full of fathers who get custody of their sons”