Terrance Hayes
Author · 13 books
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections, including American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, How to Be Drawn, and Lighthead, which won the National Book Award. He is a MacArthur Fellow and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Series
Books

So to Speak
2023

Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2014
2025

State of the Union
Fifty Political Poems
2008

Hip Logic
2002

Watch Your Language
Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
2023

Ploughshares Winter 2010-11 Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes
2010

Wind in a Box
2006

To Float in the Space Between
A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
2018

Lighthead
2010

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
2018

Muscular Music
1999

How to Be Drawn
2015

Small Blows Against Encroaching Totalitarianism Volume 1
2018