About Terrance Hayes and Conduit

Today's poem is "My Life as a Hummer"

from Conduit

Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Lighthead (Penguin), winner of the 2010 National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Wind In A Box (Penguin, 2006), awarded a Pushcart Prize; Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002), selected for the National Poetry Series; and Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999), recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His fifth collection, How to Be Drawn, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2015. Named a Spring 2015 Bagley Wright Lecturer, he is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and a Cave Canem faculty member. Additional honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a United States Artists Zell Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the editor of The Best American Poetry 2014 (Scribner, 2014), the preeminent annual anthology of contemporary American poetry.
Other poems by Terrance Hayes in Verse Daily:
January 28, 2008: "The Blue Sylvia" "A daily dose of repentance. Eyeballs rattling..."
Books by Terrance Hayes:

Other poems on the web by Terrance Hayes:
Seven poems
Ten poems
Three poems
"Arbor for Butch"
"New York Poem"
Terrance Hayes's Website.
Terrance Hayes According to Wikipedia.
About Conduit:

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Other poems by Conduit in Verse Daily:
July 29, 2013: "Ha Ha Unicorns" by Eileen G'Sell
July 25, 2013: "This World" by Oni Buchanan
July 23, 2013: "It's Here In The" by Russell Atkins
July 22, 2013: "The Distant Future" by C.J. Sage
August 16, 2012: "Landscape with Rain and Glass" by Terence Winch
August 8, 2012: "The Ocean" by Dorothea Lasky
August 7, 2012: "Bowlful of Teeth" by John Beer
August 6, 2012: "The Platitudes" by Terence Winch
October 24, 2011: "North of North" by James Haug
October 22, 2011: "Oracle" by Dean Young
October 20, 2011: "What the Mapmaker Knows" by Mary Jo Bang
October 19, 2011: "Anthem" by Michael Robins
October 18, 2011: "For Soren" by Noelle Kocot
October 18, 2010: "Penny Pincher Leaves Millions" by Mark Bibbins
October 17, 2010: "That Kind of Party" by Patrick Swaney
October 15, 2010: "Ode to Autumn" by Susan Browne
May 30, 2009: "The Terrible Poem" by Dara Wier
May 28, 2009: "The Match" by Carley Moore
May 26, 2009: "asunder" by Craig Arnold
May 25, 2009: "Moving day" by Bob Hicok
May 25, 2008: "The Party by the Lake" by Kevin Prufer
May 22, 2008: "[I Saw My Face on the Dull Head]" by Adam Clay
May 19, 2008: "Saint of Perpetual Sorrow" by James Meetze
April 27, 2008: "The Cetacean Society" by Noelle Kocot
April 26, 2008: "Kingdom Come At Once" by Travis Brown
April 25, 2008: "Baby Epic" by Tanya Larkin

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