Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include Wind in a Box, Hip Logic and Muscular Music. How To Be Drawn was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin was published in 2018 by Penguin. Since its shortlisting for the T. S. Eliot Prize, he has published So to Speak (Penguin, 2023) and Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry, an essay collection with Penguin USA (2023). He is co-director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and also poetry editor at The New York Times Magazine.
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Judges Sinéad Morrissey (Chair), Daljit Nagra and Clare Pollard have chosen the T. S. Eliot Prize 2018 Shortlist from a record 176 poetry collections submitted by, as Sinéad Morrissey says, ‘a plethora of poetry publishers’. The Shortlist comprises five debut collections, one small press, five men, five women, and two...
