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An Evening with Terrance Hayes

March 26 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

$30

Writer Terrance Hayes takes the Guggenheim stage to deliver an evening of poetry readings from his two newest books, So to Speak and Watch Your Language. Hayes will discuss how poetry and language can serve as powerful tools to process or challenge abstraction.

So to Speak and Watch Your Language are companion texts combining poetry, sketches, and illustrated essays to consider the influence and exchange among history, visual art, and the written word, not just in their creation, but also in their shared potential to help shape our sense of self and the world––a concept explored throughout the year as part of the Guggenheim’s annual Poet-in-Residence initiative. The program will include an introduction to and reading by the newly selected 2024 Poet-in-Residence, Meg Day.

$30, $25 members, $20 students with valid ID. This program will be interpreted in American Sign Language (ASL).

Presented by the Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence in association with the Academy of American Poets. Made possible by

About the Author: 

Terrance Hayes is the author of seven poetry collections: Watch Your Language; So to Speak; American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and T. S. Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float in the Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.

Details

Date:
March 26
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
$30
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.guggenheim.org/event/an-evening-with-terrance-hayes

Venue

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave
New York, NY 10128 United States + Google Map

Organizer

Guggenheim Poet-in-Residence