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FictionMattersBooks That Matter: Rob Franklin on CRUSH by Richard SikenWelcome to the FictionMatters Podcast. I’m your host Sara Hildreth and this is Books That Matter. In this series, I’ll speak with writers I admire to learn about their lives as readers and deep dive into a book that matters to them.Today, I’m joined by Rob Franklin. Rob Franklin is the author of Great Black Hope, which was published in June 2025. A national bestseller, his debut novel was nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal...
2026-04-271h 02
Runnin' Hoops PodcastEpisode 262: FDU Associate HC Josh HayesSend us Fan MailFairleigh Dickinson Associate Head Coach Josh Hayes joins the podcast to discuss what Utah is getting with Terrance Brown Jr. Plus, Utah adds a commit out of the JUCO ranks and an ACC team to the schedule. And, a special announcement from the podcast + more! Runnin' Hoops Podcast 30% Off Exclusive Deal! – FlyFitTees
2025-07-1042 minRunnin' Hoops PodcastEpisode 262: FDU Associate HC Josh HayesSend us a textFairleigh Dickinson Associate Head Coach Josh Hayes joins the podcast to provide some insights on Runnin' Utes PG Terrance Brown Jr. Plus, Utah adds a JUCO commit and an ACC school to the schedule. And, an announcement from the podcast on a new project/series I'll be putting out over the next few weeks + more! Runnin' Hoops Podcast 30% Off Exclusive Deal! – FlyFitTees
2025-07-1042 min
Poem-a-DayTerrance Hayes: "Vintage Vanity"Recorded by Terrance Hayes for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 16, 2025. www.poets.org
2025-02-1607 min
Poetry CenteredKwame Dawes: Cleansing as FireKwame Dawes introduces poems that interrogate loss and violence, transforming them in the flame of irony, elegy, and empathy. He discusses Lucille Clifton distilling “pure moments of tremendous poetry” (“lu 1958”), Michael S. Harper offering a haunting conclusion that serves as both memorial and gift (“We Assume: On the Death of our Son, Reuben Masai Harper”), and Terrance Hayes treading the line where outrage meets compassion (“Carolina Lullaby,” “A Poem That Does Nothing,” “The Poet Ai as Dylann Roof”). Dawes closes with an unpublished poem, “The House of Two Women,” which engages with the turbulent present of American life.Find the full recordings...
2025-01-2941 min
Poet Talk5 — Poet Talk about a Poem: "God is an American" by Terrance HayesIn the last episode of 2024, Jody and Sanna reflect on the first year of the podcast and their own places in writing community. They also do a close reading of one of their favourite poems: “God is an American” by Terrance Hayes. Together, they investigate beauty’s difficulty and longing’s limits, informed by the wisdom of Audre Lorde, Heather Christle and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha among others. How is the artist a cultural worker? What constitutes an American poetics? And why, most importantly, was Terrance Hayes labelled “Handsome Mystery Man” on the news in 2021? Tune in and find out.
2024-12-2758 min
Community D.C.Community DC Terrance Hayes U.S. Veterans AffairsCommunity DC Host Dennis Glasgow welcomes Terrence Hayes – he is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Over the next 30 mins, we’re going to get a great education about how many veterans have been helped with the pact act – how you can still take advantage of it – also what Terrence and his Team are doing for homeless veterans – and what the future holds when it comes to our brave men and women that have served this country – and I would like to not only thank Terrance for his 20 years of service in the Army – but all the vet...
2024-11-0730 min
Writing for ImmortalityDispatches from an abrupt ravine: A conversation with the poet Rodney LeonardWe're kicking off Season 2 of Writing for Immortality the extraordinary poet Rodney Leonard.
Rodney Leonard's poetic journey is as vibrant and multifaceted as his verses. From the rich soil of Alabama to the bustling streets of New York, Leonard's life experiences have shaped his voice in the world of poetry.
Growing up surrounded by strong women, Leonard's work resonates with the echoes of his mother and grandmother's influence. Their stories, woven into the fabric of his childhood, now form the backbone of his artistic expression.
But Leonard's muse isn't confined to his roots...
2024-09-1951 min
Reckon True StoriesHanif Abdurraqib on Basketball, Ohio, and the Art of the PlaylistDeesha and Kiese welcome acclaimed writer, poet, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. They talk about music—the significance of music to their youth and their lives now, their listening practices, and Abdurraqib’s process of creating playlists. They also discuss basketball and what is so special, so singular, about Columbus in terms of high school basketball. Deesha admits how she’s had to challenge her own notions of Ohio in regards to sports and to politics, and Abdurraqib talks about the joys and the frustrations of place, of community, and of...
2024-07-2349 min
Wine and Cheese with TeekayEpisode 12Full Table event with special guests Kylen Hayes with exclusive coverage and heated discussions
2024-07-012h 59
4764We Don't Shrug OffNew Yorker Poetry podcast - Mary Karr Reads Terrance Hayeswww.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/m…s-terrance-hayesNew Yorker Radio Hour - Love, War & Sandwicheswww.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-…r-and-sandwichesArchive on Four - In the Beginning Was The Nerdwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mz53rAdam Buxton podcast - Zadie Smith Ep 40Adam-buxton – Ep-40-zadie-smithBBC Radio 3 - The Verb - William Gibsonwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v12ybA History of Jazz 1919: Ford D...
2024-01-1404 min
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastJames Does a PromptWrite with the Breaking Form queens before we play a game of poetry homonyms.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. You can read more about and poems by Thomas Centolella here. The poems we mention in "Homonyms" are:"Yellowjackets" by Kimiko Hahn"Nothing Gentle Will Remain" by CA Conrad "Disillusion" by Langston Hughes"Peach" b...
2023-12-1830 min
The Paris ReviewBob Ross Paints Your Portrait“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.”
This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore. It was sound-designed, mixed, and features original scoring by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by Ernst Reijseger.
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2023-12-1310 min
A Mouthful of Air: Poetry with Mark McGuinnessDIY Sestina: What Would You Ask the Artist? by Terrance HayesTerrance Hayes reads ‘DIY Sestina: What Would You Ask the Artists?’ and discusses the poem with Mark McGuinness.
For a full episode transcript go to: https://amouthfulofair.fm/diy-sestina-what-would-you-ask-the-artist-terrance-hayes
2023-12-0550 min
Poetic PlonkEp 7: My HometownSend us a textHow important is our hometown? Episode seven of Poetic Plonk, explores the significance of our hometown. Terrance Hayes presents us with a story of a father and son connecting with their hometown through a baby. Whether you're new to poetry or just want something calming to listen to then sit back, relax and hit play.Keep up to date here: poeticplonkCredits:Poem: The Same City - Terrance HayesPodcast Jingle: DivKidArtwork: AIHost: Sam Trewhitt
2023-12-0318 min
Poetry CenteredSally Wen Mao: Poetic AwakeningSally Wen Mao shares poems that trace her awakening as a poet, invoking teachers both in person and on the page. She introduces Claribel Alegría on how to express the unknowable and untraceable (“Savoir Faire”), Terrance Hayes on transformation as the role of poetry in the world (“The Deer”), and Bhanu Kapil on poetic language as a means of collapsing borders (“Humanimal”). Mao concludes with her poem “a dream or a fox,” written after Lucille Clifton’s “A Dream of Foxes.” Find the full recordings of Alegría, Hayes, and Kapil reading for the Poetry Center on Voca: Claribel Al...
2023-11-2936 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastTerrance Hayes and Nick LairdTerrance Hayes and Nick Laird read from and talk about their recent books So to Speak (Penguin) and Up Late (Faber). Hayes, describing Laird, praises his ‘truth-telling that’s political, existential and above all, emotional’; Laird writing about Hayes notes that his invention ‘allows his poetry to house almost anything, from the political to the sensual, from a magic goat to a talking cat’. Join us to celebrate two of the year’s most hotly anticipated collections.The episode starts with Laird reading the title poem, Up Late, from his new collection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
2023-11-221h 05
Podcast RaleighTerrance Ruth, Professor and Student of the CommunityTerrance Ruth is one of those people in Raleigh who seems to be everywhere at all times. He's been a public school teacher and administrator, a college professor, a policy evaluator, a foundation founder, and a mayoral candidate. But how would he describe himself? First and foremost, a student of the community. Today we talk about policy and politics, where the two align, and also where they don't. Plus what can we do in the Raleigh community to truly make a difference at the local level?Terrance Ruth | Website | Illogical by Truth Podcast | Instagram
2023-10-2454 min
Poetry is BreadPoetry is Bread Podcast Episode 23 with Poet Terrance HayesPoetry is Bread Podcast Episode 23 with Poet Terrance Hayes
Host Bob Holman. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.
2023-09-111h 41
The Epicurean Vagabonds present Aesthetic ArrestAesthetic Arrest Podcast: Tori Amos, Terrance Hayes, Mark Lanegan & Remedios Varo!Plus Doris Lessing, Zadie Xa, The Archers & Our Anniversary Dinner at The Water Mill!This Week’s Apéritif: 2017 Chateau Kamnik Spark Rosé, Brut Sparkling WineReading: Shikastaby Doris Lessing & Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes Listening: With Animalsby Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood & Happy 60th Birthday to To...
2023-08-2557 min
NPR's Book of the DayTerrance Hayes' poems span history, fables and quarantine in 'So to Speak'Writing is a practice – especially for MacArthur Genius Grant and National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes. His new collection of poems, So to Speak, comes out of that practice during turbulent times: COVID quarantine, the 2020 protests after the killing of George Floyd. And they reach further back, too, to the Jim Crow South and his mother's youth. In today's episode, Hayes speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about engaging with language and reimagining family members in a new light.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2023-08-1708 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastNational Book Award PredictionsThe gays gaze into their crystal balls and predict the National Book Awards.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . . in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bo...
2023-08-1427 min
On Democracy with FPWellmanThe New Pact Act with Terrence HayesThe new PACT Act is one of the largest expansions in veterans healthcare in modern history and is available now. If veterans of Vietnam and the Gulf War era apply by August 9th they can have their benefits backdated to when the law was passed last year. Fred speaks with Terrance Hayes the press secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs about this important new benefit and why veterans should apply as soon as possible.
2023-08-0211 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastIn Real Time (with Terrance Hayes / pt. 2)Terrance Hayes talks about fatherhood, witnessing, and getting a D in high school English.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . . in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer in...
2023-07-1729 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastTools vs. Weapons (with Terrance Hayes / pt. 1)The queens get between the covers with Terrance Hayes ahead of the release of new works of poetry and prose on July 18.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . . in acts of queer survival." Pre-Order Terrance Hayes's new bo...
2023-07-1031 min
Getty Art + IdeasArt and Poetry: Recording Everyday Life“I think you can see that from my work, that I try to put everything I know in there and everything I don’t know. I’m looking for stuff that I don’t know, in that pursuit of, like, a daily practice.”Terrance Hayes is fascinated by creating records of daily life. With a background in visual art and poetry, he has a nuanced understanding of what constitutes writing and reading across mediums. His work as a teacher also touches everything he does.In this episode, hosted by Getty Research Institute associate curator Dr. LeRonn Bro...
2023-06-2839 min
Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastSo to Speak by Terrance HayesSo to Speak by Terrance Hayes by Poets & Writers
2023-06-1403 min
Close ReadingsChristopher Spaide on Terrance Hayes ("The Golden Shovel")What a thrill it was to talk with Christopher Spaide about one of the great poems of this century, Terrance Hayes's "The Golden Shovel."This is a two-for-one Close Readings experience, since you can't talk about the Hayes poem without also discussing the Gwendolyn Brooks poem that his is "after," "We Real Cool."Christopher Spaide is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, where he focuses on poetry, ecopoetics, American literature, and Asian American literature. His academic writing on poetry (as well as music and comics) appears in American Literary History, The Cambridge...
2023-02-131h 32
The Coach Donovin ShowEp. 8 - Terrance FavorsFor episode 7, I'm joined by Leader and Mentor, Terrance Favors. Terrance is currently the Men's Basketball Assistant Coach at Becker College but has his hand in many other things when it comes to serving the community of Boston, MA with the game of basketball. He has been able to create opportunities for himself after his basketball career in college and professionally in Mexico. He is now involved with ATF Athletix which is not only a basketball training organization but a mindset. ATF stands for Attack. Train. Focus. where they help players get to that next level. Listen in on our...
2022-11-0751 min
Literature, Language, Culture: A Dialogue SeriesPimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte: Gwendolyn Brooks, Terrance Hayes, and “The Golden Shovel”Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte discuss how the poetic form from Terrance Hayes' "The Golden Shovel" grew out of deeper history of race and gender in America to help us better contextualize the famous Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "We Real Cool." Watch the captioned YouTube version of this talk and more:
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This episode was produced by the "Literature, Language Culture" Series Editor, C. R. Grimmer and "Literature, Language Culture" Project Manager, Jacob Huebsch.
2022-10-0149 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastI Love the PartOur fearless queens select and dissect favorite poems--to say why and how poems endure.I Remember is a 1970 memoir written by author and artist Joe Brainard, depicting his childhood in the 1940s and '50s in Oklahoma as well as his life in the '60s and '70s in New York City. Brainard followed I Remember with I Remember More (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), both published by Angel Hair. Read Olivia Laing’s short, fabulous review of Joe Brainard’s book I Remember in The Guardian here. Of it, Laing says, “The Bible aside, I can't...
2022-08-2929 min
The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast5.4 Poetry & Non-Literary Influence: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention & Audience"In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we are sharing recordings of some of these events. Today's episode features a panel on Poetry & Non-Literary Influence, comprised of Timothy Donnelly, Terrance Hayes, & Matthew Zapruder.
Thank you to the U of A Poetry Center for partnering with us. To view additional e...
2021-12-061h 07The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast5.1 Poetry & Social Engagement: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. Over the next few months we'll be sharing recordings of some of these events, beginning with this one: a panel on Poetry & Social Engagement. This panel is comprised of Terrance Hayes, Timothy Donnelly, former BWLS director Matthew Zapruder, and Rachel Zucker.
Thank you to t...
2021-09-201h 10
Los Angeles Public Library's Poems on AirEpisode 16: Terrance HayesLos Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Terrance Hayes’ "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin".
2021-07-1602 min
Sox and Sandals PodcastEp. 170 - Who's Holding Down the Black Community | Terrance HayesOn this episode my brother Terrance Hayes and I discuss a rift that's is going on among two groups of black community advocates in Portland, Or. We are dealing with huge government contracts, real estate, non-profit vs for-profit, black representation in leadership but overall leadership is majority white, lack of trust among the groups, etc... All of these topics are all to common in this city... Be empowered, be inspired, be enlightened!
2021-07-061h 19
Get Lit MinuteTerrance Hayes | “George Floyd”In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight American poet and educator, Terrance Hayes. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. About his work, Cornelius Eady has said: "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."He has received many honors and awards, including a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize...
2021-06-2808 min
The VerbReverie - Experiments in LivingIan McMillan explores the dream like experience of 'reverie' - with Terrance Hayes, Bea Roberts, Rachel Genn and Ira Lightman.What does reverie mean to writers in 2021? Is it simply a waste of time and a state of procrastination? Novelist and neuroscientist Rachel Genn argues that a reverie can be a creative state, a propping open of the self, which lets the world 'sniff around'.The state of reverie was important to Wanda Coleman, the American poet known as 'the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles'. Coleman died in 2013, and her selected poems 'Wicked Enchantment...
2021-05-2144 min
Close Talking: A Poetry PodcastEpisode #125 The Birth of an Enduring Form - Sonnet Week Ep. 1Connor and Jack close out National Poetry Month 2021 with a series of episodes exploring the history and enduring popularity of one of poetry's iconic forms: the sonnet. To start off they travel back almost 800 years to the birth of the sonnet, discuss "Sonetto 26" by Giacomo da Lentini, and then zoom back to the present and dive into Terrance Hayes American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin."
Sonetto 26
By: Giacomo da Lentini (Translation by Leo Zoutewelle)
I’ve seen it rain on sunny days
And seen the darkness flash with light
And even lightning turn to haze,
Yes, frozen snow tu...
2021-04-2441 min
The Daily PoemTerrence Hayes' "We Should Make a Documentary about Spades"Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, Lighthead, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010.[1] In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work.[2] - Bio via Wikipedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
2021-04-2205 min
The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast3.6 Terrance Hayes: "DIY For Langston Hughes"Welcome to the sixth and final episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we’ll hear Hayes give a talk called, “DIY For Langston Hughes,” on Knight's poem, "For Langst...
2021-04-1249 minThe Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast3.5 Terrance Hayes: "Poetics of Liquid"Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we’ll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Poetics of Liquid,” a revision of ideas of ancestry and influe...
2021-04-0554 minThe Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast3.4 Terrance Hayes: "Poems From Prison"Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we’ll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Poems from Prison,” on the relationship between Knight and prison and...
2021-03-2951 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Anniversary CompilationNotes on the selections:
It’s been a year. That’s been the chorus for the past couple of weeks, and we're here, saying it too; it feels too notable, too hard-won, too full of loss, too much not to note. This episode is a compilation of some of the poems recorded over 62 episodes: a selection of poems that seem to speak to the intensely individual and communal experiences of grief and hope, of outrage and awe in the past year. Links to the poems and the original episodes below.
From “Read By: Terrance Hayes” - “Things No One Knows,” by Wanda Col...
2021-03-2823 minThe Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast3.3 Terrance Hayes: "Three Acts of Love"Welcome to the third episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we’ll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Three Acts of Love,” on three of Knight’s love poems a...
2021-03-2255 min
Pistons vs. EverybodyMock Trade Time: Talking Killian Hayes' return and your fake trades from TwitterLazarus Jackson (@lazchance) goes solo to talk about the timeline for Killian Hayes' return and your fake trades prior to the NBA Trade Deadline on March 25th. That, in turn, became a discussion about playing at your own pace, a mulligan on Marvin Bagley, Terrance Ferguson's RIDICULOUS pre-draft combine YouTube highlights, why Sekou Doumbouya is worth too much to the Detroit Pistons and too little to anyone else, my theory about Troy Weaver and Zach LaVine-types, Jerami Grant not wanting to play in Boston, bone-crunching screens, connecting the dots in the DMV, Kristaps' Porzingis' max contract, Hamidou Diallo and duplicate s...
2021-03-181h 06The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast3.2 Terrance Hayes: "Ideas of Influence"Welcome to the second episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we’ll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Ideas of Influence,” on Knight’s influences and general acts of imit...
2021-03-151h 02The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast3.1 Terrance Hayes: "Turning Into Dwelling: The Space Between the Poet and the Poem"Welcome to the first episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes, beginning with today's talk: “Turning Into Dwelling: The Space Between the Poet and the Poem.” Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. “Turning Into Dwelling” is on Knight’s me...
2021-03-0845 min
Arji's Poetry Pickle JarArji's Poetry Pickle Jar Ep 2 - Peter KahnAnother instalment of the Pickle Jar, this week we are joined by amazing teacher and poet Peter Kahn.
Peter Kahn was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2009 and 2017. He is a founding member of Malika’s Kitchen and co-founder of the London Teenage Poetry Slam. He has been a school teacher and university lecturer, as a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths-University of London, he founded the Spoken Word Education Training Programme. Peter holds an MA in English Education from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Along with Patricia Smith and Ravi Shan...
2020-12-0115 min
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public LibraryJust Us: An American ConversationHow do we talk about race in America? Two of our country's most award-winning poets and unflinching voices on racism will join ALOUD for their first public event together. Claudia Rankine is an artistic innovator, Yale professor, and MacArthur fellow. Her previous groundbreaking book, Citizen: An American Lyric, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Rankine’s newest book, Just Us: An American Conversation, invites readers to engage with what is said and not said about whiteness, privilege, prejudice, and bias as our public and private lives intersect. Terrance Hayes’s most recent awar...
2020-11-161h 13
LPRCCrimeScience – The Weekly Review: Episode 29 with Dr. Read Hayes, Tony D’Onofrio, Tom Meehan and Featured Guest Terrance Gainer
Special guest Terrance Gainer, founder of Terrance W. Gainer, LLC, joins the CrimeScience podcast to talk about the election outcome response, the substantial increase in murders and non-fatal shootings, data reporting, and police departments adaptations to increase public engagement & safety. Our co-hosts also discuss the pandemic, social media censoring algorithms, consumer perception of the new normal, holiday season predictions, and much more.
Terrance W. Gainer is the founder of Terrance W. Gainer, LLC, a security and business development firm. In 2014, the United States Senate appointed Chief Gainer as the 38th United States Senate Sergeant at Arms, a culmin...
2020-10-2200 min
How To ProceedTerrance HayesLinn Ullmann talks to the American poet Terrance Hayes about poetry in the time of pandemics and Trump, about intimacy and vulnerability, about his obsession with time, form and order, and about poetry as both weapon and refuge.Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarsønn Langhoff. The signal between Oslo and New York is unfortunately somewhat suboptimal – something we experience from time to time in this zoom era. We hope you can hear past this, and enjoy Terrance Hayes’ thoughtful reflections and beautiful readings!Read more...
2020-08-2700 min
The New Yorker: PoetryRadical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our TimesIn a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberation.
Tracy K. Smith served two terms as a U.S. poet laureate, and has won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a Pulitzer prize. Her latest collection is “Wade in the Water.” Marilyn Nelson writes poetry for adults, young adults, and children. Her honors include a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an N. S. K. Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and a Frost Medal from the Poetry Soci...
2020-07-2445 min
Poem TalkOminous Pre-tingling: A discussion of “MJ Fan Letter” and “RSVP” by Terrance HayesHosted by Al Filreis and featuring Simone White, Dixon Li, and Jo Park.
2020-07-2452 min
What Makes You PodcastBLACK LIVES MATTER ( + Watermelon Sugar Music Video)BLACK LIVES MATTER.
In this episode, we discuss the resources we’ve been turning to to better our selves as allies for the black community. We also discuss Harry finally postponing tour and the Watermelon Sugar music video.
BLM Resources
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
https://bailproject.org/
https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/louisville-community-bail-fund/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKRGnoz_JnI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTfXQXU-t6o
2020-06-2552 min
Gabe And Balake Brothers WonderzDo not go gently into that good good night...And yet another week has come and gone. Happy Junteenth it's Friday, Friday, got get up its Friday as Rebecca Black single goes singing in the shower, dancing in the mirror, playing pranks & games with your Brother, that's just how we do it at Brothers Wonderz; it's better to be the hunter than the hunted - prey. So either way haters gonna hate and skaters gonna skate, dancers gonna shake, and their always good old fashioned shake at steak & shake, and if you never heard about it like Juneteenth, Cumbus Day, or Bastille day than boy oh boy are you...
2020-06-2037 min
Basement Poetry PodcastRemain UncomfortableToday we have a poem that really speaks to what our nation is going through, and what black people have to go through on a regular basis. We will take a look at Terrance Hayes's poem "Talk"
Link to his Bio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terrance-hayes
BPP Email: BasementPoetryPod@gmail.com
Transcription of the Poem:
Talk
like a nigger now, my white friend, M, said
after my M.L.K. and Ronald Reagan impersonations,
the two of us alone and shirtless in the locker room,
and if you're thinking my knuckles knocked
a few times against his jaw or my...
2020-06-1313 minGabe And Balake Brothers WonderzTake and give back affairs from dispatch with such a smooth and discrete stable bearing; ShakespeareWho is Robert Frost, Terrance Hayes, and William Shakespeare have in common - poems, poems, and more poems. What do songs, rap, and poetry have in common besides - I don't know rhymes, meter, and beat. Tune in Next Thursday to listen to the poetry beat, that's a new segment will do about plays, stories, and poetry. That's what makes Brothers Wonderz like no other, because how many others offer - music and brothers:).
2020-05-2927 min
The Loudcast2020 NaPoWriMo Special 3This week on The Loudcast we discuss how week two of National Poetry Writing Month went and share some of our poems with all of you. Below are some helpful links that we mention in the show. Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool Terrance Hayes' original "Golden Shovel," based on Brooks' poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55678/the-golden-shovel Max Richter - Richter: On The Nature Of Daylight https://youtu.be/InyT9Gyoz_o Thanks for listening. If you want to hear more from us make sure...
2020-05-0756 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeStephanie Burt on poetry and being transStephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet who is Professor of English at Harvard University and a transgender activist. The New York Times has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation". Burt grew up near Washington, D.C. She has published four collections of poetry and many works of literary criticism. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Believer, and The Boston Review. Her book Randall Jarrell and His Age reevaluates Jarrell's importance as a poet. The...
2020-04-1352 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Terrance HayesTerrance Hayes on his selection:
I'm reading two poems by Wanda Coleman to celebrate the April publication of her selected poems, WICKED ENCHANTMENT: “Things No One Knows” and “American Sonnet #54.” I’m also reading two of my poems in conversation with her work: “The Things-No-One-Knows Blues,” from my sophomore collection, HIP LOGIC, and an unpublished American Sonnet. She was a guiding light for me even before she became a friend. I was honored to edit her selected poems.
2020-04-1108 min
the Poetry Project PodcastTerrance Hayes & Asiya Wadud - November 15, 2017Terrance Hayes & Asiya Wadud - November 15, 2017 by
2020-02-211h 04
Lannan Center PodcastTerrance Hayes I 2019-2020 Readings and Talks SeriesOn January 21, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Terrance Hayes. Terrance Hayes is the author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins (Penguin, 2018), a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry; To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018); How to Be Drawn (2015); Lighthead (2010), which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. An artist-in-residence at New York University, Hayes currently resides...
2020-01-2754 min
Millennial Poets SocietyMPS Ep 38: GodspeedNew decade, new episode, new poets (maybe...?). The ladies spent their New Years Eve recording the podcast you know and love and things got *dwhimsical*. Listen along as they to figure out if they got their senior prom dress from the same store and Marguerite jogs your—and Emily’s—memory.
Email Who’s to Say submissions to millennialpoetssociety@gmail.com
Featured poets: Matthew Zapruder, Terrance Hayes, Kenneth Patchen
Special thanks to Zach Adkins for the Intro and Outro music.
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2020-01-041h 01
Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush PileEpisode 78: It’s Brusque!It’s a beautiful fall day in the neighborhood, slushies. Kathy’s in love with the equinox, Jason’s in his bathrobe, Joe has a new porn name (“Brusque 80”), and Marion is in air-conditioned climate denial. (It’s always sunny in Abu Dhabi!).
We kick off briskly with three poems by Blake Campbell. “The right parts of the brain light up / for the wrong reasons” in Campbell’s “New Year” and our brains can’t stop sparking about the wonderful terribleness of a bad day. Editors spar over the poem’s potential meaning, threatening each other with Billy Joel lyrics, and deligh...
2019-12-1750 min
The Hive Poetry CollectivePatricia Smith dazzles Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O'Reilly at The HiveCo-hosts Farnaz Fatemi and Dion O'Reilly discuss the virtuosic poet Patricia Smith. Let Smith’s poetry alter your mind (as poetry should!) with her intense subject matter and comforting beats. Hear poems and discussion from her books Incendiary Art and Blood Dazzler, and explore poetry forms like the Golden Shovel, invented by Terrance Hayes after a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and used by Smith in Incendiary Art.
http://www.wordwoman.ws
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patricia-smith
2019-12-0255 min
WFIU: Profiles InterviewsPoet Terrance HayesIndiana Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka speaks with acclaimed poet Terrance Hayes, author of the recent collection, "American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin.”
2019-11-1700 min
Now That We’re FriendsJuanita Hits The Debate Stage Or Um, The Dinner TableOn a very special episode of Now That We're Friends, our new friend Juanita is fighting with family over political differences. She asks Caroline, Anne and Gale for advice on how to find peace and perspective when surrounded by conflict. Gale has an imaginary argument about shrimp. Caro talks about the burn out that comes with anger. Anne has a moment of uncertainty that leads to her expressing her love of watching Kevin Bacon dance out his frustrations in an abandoned warehouse. There's also plenty of tips on how to deal with family about differing ideologies, including watching unifying...
2019-08-261h 08The VerbAmericaThe Verb does a deep dive into the word 'America' - why does it have such a hold on the imagination? Ian's guests are Tracy K Smith, the US Poet Laureate, nominated for the TS Eliot prize for her collection 'Wade in the Water', and Terrance Hayes, author of 'American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin', which was also shortlisted for the TS Eliot. Joining them is the critic Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream.Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
2019-05-2444 min
BookwormTerrance Hayes: American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Seventy sonnets written in the first two hundred days of Trump's presidency, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes, flies out of the cages of literary, cultural, and historical forms. Warning: Today's episode contains strong language that some listeners may find offensive.
2019-05-1629 min
Poet WafflePoet Waffle #6 (Niall O’Sullivan)Poet Daniel Cockrill invites, Poet, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Autodiadact, Niall O’Sullivan round his house for a chat.
During this chat they explore the visceral space between fact and fiction to reveal certain truths that can’t necessarily be explained by these other fields.
They also attempt to answer the Poet Waffle Big Question: What is the most important thing to teach a child?
Topics covered include: The Sonnet, The Performance Poetry World, The Literary World, Don Patterson, Terrance Hayes, Reading & Performing a Sonnet, Fashionable & Unfashionable Poetry, Poetry Boom, Is Poetry the New Rock ‘n’ Roll?, InstaPoetry, Progressive Rock, Punk, Pu...
2019-05-1229 min
Recommended#11: Lori Gottlieb and Nikesh ShuklaIn this episode, Lori Gottlieb and Nikesh Shukla join us to talk about books that have shaped their own craft.
This episode is sponsored by The Five by Hallie Rubenhold and The Fall of Crazy House by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet.
You can subscribe to Recommended in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or in your podcast player of choice. The show can also be found on Stitcher here.
A transcript of this episode is available here.
Books Discussed:
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese
The Good Immigrant...
2019-04-1720 min
The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching ChannelEpisode 27: Chicago Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson on Black Feminist Embodiment, Lucille Clifton, and Musical InfluencesChicago Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson reads hers and Lucille Clifton's work and then discusses Black feminist embodiment and musical influences -- including but not limited to Jamila Woods, Marvin Gaye, and Joni Mitchell. In the words of Terrance Hayes: "“Kara is amazing! She’s a terrific writer of course in the poems but in the prose too. Style plus insight.” Finally: special shout out to Dr. Camea Davis, Urban Word NYC, and The National Youth Poet Laureate Program (see links below) for putting together such a rad collaboration.
On Kara Jackson --
Kara Jackson is the...
2019-03-1034 min
The Lynne Show - Music, Interviews and Stories for ChangeInterview with Poet Terrance Hayes3-4-19 Interview Poet, Painter, Philosopher, Professor Terrance Hayes was born to a single 16 year old who jokes that she “couldn’t afford to anything but keep him.” He began to draw very young and was known for his visual art skill – listen to the…
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2019-03-0200 min
Lit from the Basement030 "The Same City" by Terrance HayesIn this episode, Danielle shares "The Same City" by Terrance Hayes. Talking points include revision poems, cold and flu season, crappy weather, and mixing up biblical stepfathers.
2019-02-2550 min
2019-02-1634 min
Saturday ReviewWhen We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Kafka's Last Trial, Bonnard, DestroyerCate Blanchett's appearance on London's theatre scene has caused so much excitement that ticket allocation is by ballot; When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela at the National Theatre is described as "six characters who act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance."When Franz Kafka died in 1924, he left instructions that any remaining manuscripts should be burnt. These instructions were not followed and a legal battle ensued to decide to whom they should belong: to the country of his language - Germany, of his birth - Czechoslovakia or...
2019-01-2644 minThe VerbTS Eliot Prize ReadingsJoin Ian McMillan as he comperes a special evening of some of the very best poetry published over the last year - at the annual T.S.Eliot Prize readings, recorded in front of an audience at the Royal Festival Hall. All the short-listed poets will be featured, including the U.S. Laureate Tracy K Smith, Terrance Hayes, Nick Laird, Zaffar Kunial, Fiona Moore, Sean O'Brien, Ailbhe Darcy, Hannah Sullivan, Richard Scott and Phoebe Power.
2019-01-1459 min
The Guardian Books podcastPolitical writing from Terrance Hayes to the Anglo-Saxons – books podcastAs the midterm elections loom, we welcome a poet whose verse is carved from this divided moment and search for the deep roots of political writing
2018-10-3045 min
The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching ChannelFlash Briefing: Alonso Llerena Reads Terrance HayesIn today's flash briefing poetry reading, Alonso Llerena is a guest reader. He reads Terrance Hayes' "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin." We recorded in two different places and times, so the volume might jump around a bit, but it is worth it to hear his voice here again on the vlog's weekday readings! Plus, this is one of my favorite contemporary poems. More on Alonso Llerena -- Alonso is a poet and teacher in Washington D.C. of Peruvian descent. His work confronts being an immigrant here in the USA, but specifically as a Peruvian who...
2018-10-1102 min
Sox and Sandals PodcastComrade Conversations pt. 4 | Terrance Hayes & Paul Henry Grice III (Ep. 80)This is the final installment of the Comrade Conversation series with my brothers. We go out on at monumental time in our society. This week Nike named Colin Kaepernick as the face of their 30th anniversary of the "Just Do it" campaign, along with a new deal that includes his own apparel/shoe line through Nike. Salute to Kaep on his positively affecting the country on behalf of "black" people in America. Salute to Nike for being on the right side of history and keeping the same energy through tribulation. We also, discuss some controversial comments shared at Aretha Franklin's...
2018-09-042h 13
No Good PoetryEpisode 74: SonnetsThis week is all about sonnets, both traditional and modern. We read and talk about sonnets by John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, e.e. cummings, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, and Terrance Hayes.
2018-09-011h 07
Sox and Sandals PodcastComrade Conversations pt. 3 | Terrance Hayes & Paul Henry Grice III (Ep. 79)The comrades discussed black culture this week. It's amazing that in America we all have our own definition of what we perceive black culture to be. So, we bounced ideas about what it is, who owns it, what its value is, etc. Also, we debated how important the word n*gga is to black culture. Can we function without that word?
Host:
Emmanuel Williams
@emmanuelsince85 - IG
@SXSNDLS - IG and Twitter
Guest:
Terrance Hayes
Paul Henry Grice III
@peace_and_prosperity86 - IG
Music:
"Faux Pas" (Sox and Sandals Theme Song)
- Artist: Shaun Lamott @lamottspeaks
- Producer: @tonejonez
2018-08-281h 59
Sox and Sandals PodcastComrade Conversations pt. 2 | Terrance Hayes & Paul Henry Grice III (Ep. 78)In this week’s episode the comrades are officially together in the flesh! Terrance, Paul and I discuss the value of winning an argument and/or getting your way in marriage (from the male perspective of course). Terrance and I have somewhat of a veteran point of view while Paul has been married for a matter of months, so you can imagine the answers will go in all sorts of directions... We also discuss the value of giving solutions to your wife’s “issues/problems” with her friends and coworkers. Y’all might already know the answer to that one huh? Lol,
2018-08-221h 38
Sox and Sandals PodcastComrade Conversations pt. 1 | Terrance Hayes (Ep. 77)Welcome to part 1 of 4 of the 'Comrade Conversations' series. In each episode we intend to have at least 3 or 4 black men speaking on topics the revolve mainly around marriage/relationships. In this week's episode I had my guy Terrance Hayes join me. Our other comrade Paul Henry Grice III joined us briefly on FB live before he was abruptly checked by his wife and he had to hop off the livestream (lol, just joking bro...)but we tackled the question, "What is it like being married to a black woman while living in a predominantly white city?" Listen and enjoy!
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2018-08-141h 21The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching ChannelFlash Briefing: Terrance Hayes' "The Avocado"Today's Flash Briefing poetry reading is from the Wave Books Anthology, "State of the Union: 50 Political Poems." I am reading "The Avocado" by Terrance Hayes. The Flash Briefings are 2 minutes or less "flash" readings for you to jump start your week days! They are published M - F. Feel free to comment, request, or chat with me via the links below. ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship co...
2018-07-2302 min
Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastAmpersand Episode 20: Lauren Groff, Terrance Hayes, A. M. HomesLauren Groff reads from her new book, Florida; Terrance Hayes reads from American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin; plus readings by Hanif Abdurraqib and A. M. Homes.
2018-06-1331 min
From the Catbird Seat: Poetry from the Library of CongressBagley Wright Lecture SeriesOn the seventh episode of "From the Catbird Seat," Rob Casper goes behind the scenes with Matthew Zapruder, editor at large of Wave Books and the former director of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, about the six Bagley Wright lectures hosted at the Library of Congress between 2013 and 2016. The lecture series features leading mid-career poets as they explore, in-depth, their own thinking on the subject of poetry and poetics. We'll listen to three poets who delivered Bagley Wright lectures at the Library of Congress: Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, and Terrance Hayes.
2018-06-0700 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeMatthew Zapruder on his book Why PoetryMatthew Zapruder is a poet, editor, translator, and professor. He earned a BA in Russian literature at Amherst College, an MA in Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Sun Bear (2014), Come On All You Ghosts (2010), The Pajamaist (2006), and American Linden (2002). His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Scie...
2018-05-181h 36
Studio 360 with Kurt AndersenPoets who know itTo celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re featuring some of our favorite American practitioners. Tracy K. Smith shares some of her surprising sources of poetic inspiration: David Bowie and the Hubble Space Telescope. And she chooses the winners to our listener poetry competition. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” gets the American Icons treatment. And Kurt Andersen talks to award-winning poet and “Sexiest Man Alive” Terrance Hayes about his 2015 book, “How to Be Drawn.”
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2018-04-0549 min
Discovery & InspirationHollis Robbins, “The Double-Voiced Form: The African American Sonnet Tradition”First emerging in the Italian Renaissance, the sonnet was used to document and address a problem, such as the pain of unrequited love. Under the shadow of slavery and then Jim Crow, African American poets from Phillis Wheatley to Natasha Trethewey have adopted the sonnet’s 14-line form to poetically register political protest. National Humanities Center Fellow Hollis Robbins, from Johns Hopkins University, is currently at work on the first book-length examination of the African American sonnet tradition.
In this podcast, Robbins discusses how the sonnet both emerges out of and transforms the tradition of Platonic metaphysical ideal love. Drawing on...
2018-03-1917 min
Black Box PoetrySonnetsIn this episode, Isaac, Sean, and Anastasia talk about sonnets!
In talking about Shakespeare's sonnet 9, Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias." and Terrance Hayes's "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin," the team chats about how tracing the development of the sonnet helps us to trace the history of lyric poetry.
https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?Sonnet=9
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/143917/american-sonnet-for-my-past-and-future-assassin-598dc83c976f1
2018-02-1659 minThe New Yorker: PoetryTerrance Hayes reads Matthew DickmanTerrance Hayes joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Matthew Dickman's poem "Fire" and his own poem “New York Poem."
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2018-01-1726 min
so...poetry?season 2 episode 17 - corroborating realityin which JP Allen and i drop the names of poets you should DEFINITELY check out, arrive at some possibly essential truths about the nature of poetry, and STAY MOSTLY ON TOPIC HOLY SHIT THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE MAYBE
instagram: jpalln
other things referenced:
Home Alone recorder thingy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkboy
Hey You, Come Back - https://www.facebook.com/HeyYouComeBackReadings/
Starts Here - http://startsherereadingseries.blogspot.com/
release info for Apsara in New York by Sokunthary Svay - https://willowlit.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/apsara-in-ny-1-sheet.pdf
four poems by Sokunthary Svay - http://apogeejournal...
2017-08-271h 58The New Yorker: PoetryMary Karr Reads Terrance HayesMary Karr joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Terrance Hayes’s poem “Ars Poetica with Bacon” and her own poem “Face Down.”
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2017-03-1524 min
Chaplain Sabrina: LOVE, GRACE & JOY for HUMANITYItalya Potts Christian Music Arist and Comedian TerranceSabrina discusses the impact of Christin muisic with italya Potts. She also hears funny jokes from Mr. T. Hayes
It's rare to find someone born with the natural ability to captivate an audience. Italya Potts has displayed her ability to do so macayli
Terrance Hayes, a comedian that is stellar, funny and will bring you to your knees laughing. Comedian Host at the Night Life Show.
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bIt's rare to find someone born with the natural ability to captivate an audience. Italya Potts has displayed her ability to do so since child hood. Born in our nation's capital of Washington, D.C., it was obvious since the age of 2...
2015-08-2048 min