Rate My Professor Terrance Hayes

Hayes's poetry collections include Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999), winner of the Whiting Writers' Award and Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002), National Poetry Series selection and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and James Laughlin Award; Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist; Lighthead (Penguin, 2010), winner of the National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; How to Be Drawn (Penguin, 2015), National Book Award finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and NAACP Image Award winner; American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018), finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, TS Eliot Prize, and others; So to Speak (Penguin, 2023); and the essay collection Watch Your Language (Penguin, 2023). Additional works include To Float in the Space Between (Wave, 2018), Pegasus Award winner for Poetry Criticism. Hayes received a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and United States Artists. He served as poetry editor for the New York Times Magazine (2017-2018) and guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2014. His poetry, appearing in ten editions of The Best American Poetry, explores race, identity, music, masculinity, and popular culture through inventive forms, establishing his enduring impact in literature.