#terrance hayes

[geryone]

So to Speak, Terrance Hayes

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[northwindow]

Terrance Hayes, from So to Speak

#terrance hayes #so to speak

[firstfullmoon]

okay hold on this is so cool. bear with me

1) read this terrance hayes poem

2) read this gwendolyn brooks poem

3) go back to the terrance hayes poem and pay attention to the ends of lines

#terrance hayes is a GENIUSSSS #like he created a whole new poetic form with this how insanely cool is that? #poetry #terrance hayes #gwendolyn brooks

[havingapoemwithyou]

the same city by Terrance Hayes

#Terrance Hayes #poetry #poem #december

[strykerlancer]

“What I feared was in me was in me, I wanted to lie still in the body like a knife.”

— Terrance Hayes, from “Lighthead.”

#Terrance Hayes #Lighthead #words #literature #poetry #quotes #out of my collection #lit

[lillyli-74]

You can teach the heart to love its sadness. Yes, you can.

~Terrance Hayes

#terrance hayes

[haveyoureadthispoem-poll]

"It was discovered the best way to combat / Sadness was to make your sadness a door."

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

#not the full collection from 2018 #open polls #polls #poetry #poems #poetry polls #poets and writing #tumblr poetry #have you read this #american sonnet for my past and future assassin #terrance hayes

[julian-winter]

Terrance Hayes - American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

#terrance hayes #poetry #poem #sonnet

[leonardcohenofficial]

terrance hayes, “midnight”

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[ribombeee]

#this poem had me in tears doing workshop hw so #currently reading #terrance hayes #hip logic

[misserinmarie]

Poetic intelligence can be learned, and writing poems helps you listen to yourself. It’s a weapon against the gaslighting that’s always afoot in the world, and… the gaslighting we do to ourselves.

Terrance Hayes, The Paris Review Art of Poetry No. 111

#Terrance Hayes #poetry #writing

[geryone]

So to Speak, Terrance Hayes

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[lethesbeastie]

Artwork I did as part of my final presentation for my poetry class, the captions are from Terrance Hayes "I trap you in an American Sonnet..."

Tw for blood and animal death under the cut!

Chorus just keeps going through it

#MHC: Chorus #Monster Hunters Club Campaign #Letters To Arrow #character art #digital art #original character #artists on tumblr #comic art #original story #highly recommend yall read the whole poem i desperately wanna make an animatic with it eventually its gorgeous #I trap you in an american sonnet that is part prison part panic closet #terrance hayes #american sonnet for my past and future assassin #<<< name of the collection the poem is from

[firstfullmoon]

Terrance Hayes, “The Same City”

#I posted the highlighted part before on here but I wanted to post the whole thing because what the hell #I think this has become one of my favourite poems of all time #w #poetry #terrance hayes

[rustbeltjessie]

Recent additions to my library. The top two—Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss and Watch Your Language by Terrance Hayes—were gifts from an anonymous Tumblr follower (thank you so much!). The bottom book—a gorgeously illustrated edition of (selections from) Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions, was one I bought for myself and my kiddos.

#my photos #books #diane seuss #terrance hayes #pablo neruda #rust belt jessie

[ashtrayfloors]

99. Do you think Frank O'Hara was somewhere reading from Lunch Poems when some Black students were attacked for sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter?

100. How about two actors play LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka discussing anti-Semitism in an episode of a less comedic season of poetic history set in the 1960s?

101. Is it possible to think of anything in the 1950s without thinking of the murder of Emmett Till in 1955?

102. Does Emmett Till or Rosa Parks trigger the Civil Rights Movement?

103. Did you know President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in the same year James Baldwin published The Fire Next Time?

104. What would constitute a perfect poem for you?

105. Who kept loving Sylvia Plath and Jimi Hendrix after high school, college, and middle age?

106. Who, in general, lives longer, painters or poets?

107. What is Time?

108. What are (your) ecopoetics?

109. Did you know Lucille Clifton went to Howard University with Amiri Baraka when he was known as LeRoi Jones?

110. If the poet representative of the last American century is, like the century, a mess of experiments, contradictions, and conviction, isn't Baraka a pretty good representative poet?

111. How about a vision of the American poet starring a mother (Lucille Clifton) who writes poems while raising her six children in Maryland in the 1970s?

112. Can you believe that Baraka's 1968 anthology of Afro-American writing, Black Fire, featured essays by John Henrik Clarke and Harold Cruse and poems by Sun Ra, David Henderson, A.B. Spellman, Sonia Sanchez, Henry Dumas, Jay Wright, Stanley Crouch, Lorenzo Thomas, and Victor Hernández Cruz, but did not include poems by Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Bob Kaufman, Etheridge Knight, or Audre Lorde?

113. What do you think of Audre Lorde's "Power"?

114. Have you ever read "Those Winter Sundays" and wondered what happened to the mother in the poem?

115. Have you ever met anyone familiar with the poems of Allen Ginsberg's father, Louis Ginsberg?

116. If you write a poem like "Howl," do you really need to write anything else?

117. Is "Howl" an example of a poem that actually changed things?

118. When you write a poem, what does it teach you about the past?

119. Did you know Ginsberg reads the entirety of his poem "When the Light Appears" in the song "When the Light Appears Boy" on the album When I Was Born for the 7th Time, released by Cornershop in 1997, the year of Ginsberg's death?

120. Did you know that was his voice on "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash ("Starved in metropolis / Hooked on necropolis / Addict of metropolis / Do the worm on acropolis / Slamdance the cosmopolis / Enlighten the populace...") ?

121. Do you sort of think of the Beat poets in the same way you think of the Grateful Dead, with members wandering around like several hairy, high Walt Whitmans?

122. Couldn't we debate whether Robert Lowell or Ginsberg is more confessional?

123. Is it true Bob Kaufman took a vow of silence to protest the Vietnam War?

124. Who brings more intimacy and toughness to poetry than Lucille Clifton?

125. What if every day you ask poetry of yourself?

—Terrance Hayes, from "Twentieth Century Examination Part V" (Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, Penguin Books, 2023)

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