{"id":968,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/terrance-hayes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:51:32","slug":"terrance-hayes","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/terrance-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrance Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"citizen-ex__pane\">\n<p>Terrance Hayes\u00a0is the author of <em>Lighthead,<\/em> winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include <em>Wind in a Box<\/em>, <em>Hip Logic <\/em>and <em>Muscular Music<\/em>. <em>How To Be Drawn <\/em>was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award. <em>American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin <\/em>was published in 2018 by Penguin. Since its shortlisting for the T. S. Eliot Prize, he has published\u00a0<em>So to Speak\u00a0<\/em>(Penguin, 2023) and <em>Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry<\/em>, an essay collection with Penguin USA (2023). He is<em> c<\/em>o-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 <em>The New York Times Magazine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terrancehayes.com\/\">www.terrancehayes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrance Hayes\u00a0is 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":969,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-968","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}