Terrance Hayes is the author of several collections of poetry. He is a professor at NYU.
Introduction
Summer 2023
Terrance Hayes Introduces Bernard Ferguson
Bernard Ferguson is a recent NEA winner, an accomplished essayist, and among the most gifted graduate students I have encountered. I thought of Ferguson’s poems for this Kenyon Review issue […]
Poetry
Summer 2023
Comfort Food
The hypogeal bud of the lentil blossoms underground like food for the dead. For millennia lentils have fulfilled the appetites of farmers near famine & kings fattened on feasts. Lentils […]
Nature's (Human) Nature
May/June 2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
I can become human being the light Father makes me fire Mother makes me ice What my father makes me I pour over forests I burn the woods covering the […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin The song must be cultural, confessional, clear But not obvious. It must be full of compassion And crows bowing in a vultures […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
Wind in a Box
This ink. This name. This blood. This blunder. This blood. This loss. This lonesome. Wind. This canyon. This / twin / swiftly / paddling / shadow blooming an inch above […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
The Whale
For P. Just like that your father’s dead, Half of all the footsteps you’ve made In your lifetime swept away by the tide Gnawing the shore, the bits of shells […]