Terrance Hayes is a contemporary American poet born in 1971. He is known for his collections American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins and To Float In The Space Between. The latter won the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism.
‘At Pegasus’ by Terrance Hayes is a powerful poem about identity that uses a youthful memory and a contemporary experience to speak about life.
How could I not find them
beautiful, the way they dive & spill
into each other,
‘We Should Make a Documentary About Spades’ is written by contemporary American poet Terrance Hayes. This imaginary piece explores the theme of racism and implicitly comments on the history of Spades.
And here is all we’ll need: a card deck, quartets of sun people
Of the sort found in black college dormitories, some vintage
Music, indiscriminate spirits, fried chicken, some paper,