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Terrance Hayes

American Educator

Born: Nov 18, 1971

Like Made Me Poet School Writing

Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath. Terrance Hayes

Music Language Breath Our Poems Instrument Just Form Happens

Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board. Terrance Hayes

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Poets are like the decathletes of literature. Terrance Hayes

Poets Like Literature

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me. Terrance Hayes

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We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand. Terrance Hayes

Car Made Ourselves Computers Know Because Understand Anything Created Really

Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. Terrance Hayes

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While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American. Terrance Hayes

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