Terrance Hayes - "Avuncular Funk: The Poetics of Tim Seibles"

Terrance Hayes will give a lecture entitled "Avuncular Funk: The Poetics of Tim Seibles" as part of the History & Forms of Lyric series.

Presented in partnership with Creative Writing at the University of Chicago

This is an in-person event. It will be held at the Logan Center for the Arts, in Room 801. A University of Chicago ID is required to attend. Find further details, including COVID safety protocols, at the registration link below.

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About the author: Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS 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.

About American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin: In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country’s past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered–the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.