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But I have no nose, no mouth, so you tell me what's good, what's god, what's funky. You wont admit it. Movies. Id rather take a year to figure it out than have you tell me in five minutes whats wrong with it. Im interested in Language School poetics, too. We will take a very serious look at whether the interests of justice are served in retrying Ramos cases that are returned to us after a court ruling, and we plan to center equity and fairness in making these determinations, Weisberg said. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his family. SHAPIRO: And the fact that he refers to my past and future assassin suggests that this is something perpetual in America that won't go away. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Thats manifested in the pecha kucha poems in Lighthead: theyre not measurements of meter; theyre measurements of time. Eat something else. I dont necessarily think Im entitled to anything or that I can control very much. According to the sociology, boomers are more fixed in their positions and more polemical, whereas Generation X is more polyglot and less oppositional: they tend toward what one sociologist calls the cultural omnivore and dont have as strict distinctions among kinds of art. Like, one of these sonnets begins, (reading) a remix of "Pony" by Ginuwine plays while half a dozen beautiful black men strut on stage wearing translucent black housecoats, then pause with their backs to us before a slow twerking as half a dozen beautiful black women walk on stage in sharp alabaster tuxedos and surgical masks. JW: Do you think its because you had an anomalous path coming into poetry? He is known for his collections American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins and To Float In The Space Between. Some of them want that, but they dont know what it looks like or know enough about the template for becoming a successful writer, so they wind up writing really interesting things all the time. I didnt write a lot of poems as an undergrad, but I was always working on them. JW: And its also the table to come, which you cant quite predict, or you might be totally off if you do. Terrance Hayes is a dazzlingly original poet, interested in adventurous explorations of subject and form. Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature, My grandfather was a war veteran; my dad was in the army; my brother was in the army. I knew I could talk to this professor about Faulkner because he was teaching it. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. But I dont want to be tied to one adjective. Both of those are equally romantic and equally problematic. In all of his work, five poetry collections to date, he ferociously unearths the layers of racist thinking and its harmful effects, often using the poem's form as his tool. JW: One complaint about creative writing programs is that they routinize the process and produce cookie-cutter writing, but the university also allows a lot of people to write and do things like that. What we can say now is that at least there are more people with opportunities. If the court rules in favor of allowing Ramos to apply to past cases, people like Jackson and Hayes will have a chance for a retrial. For decades, Oregon and Louisiana were the only states that allowed felony convictions by split jury votes. "You belong in our swamps not our schools!" Future has this song Fuck Up Some Commas. Hes talking about money, but when I hear it, I hear it about syntax and the way a sentence is built. I could just write a poem for the fun of it, but Id spent all this time as a painter, and my art teacher, whos also passed away now, Kim Chalmers, certainly encouraged me. To fuck up some commas is an interesting idea. him with a "Get the Hell out of here!" States are allowed to use their own retroactivity test, and we do not know whether Oregon will follow the federal standard or come up with its own state test, Kaplan said. So Ill risk naivety in the moment. Responding to the person in front of you and their potential and interests, and challenging those potentials and interests, seem to me benchmarks for a program. TH: Im interested in identity, but theres another circle thats closer to the self, and thats personality. This grim audit is amusing to figure out: the Z is hidden in disease; the only X I can locate is in the word exist. Hayes nods to Gwendolyn Brookss poem The Mother, about abortion, and invokes Robert Lowell, the Mayflower maniac, whose unrhymed sonnets are a shadow text for this book. And how should I look at my partner: in her eyesOr at her body? Im not sure how to hold my face when I dance, he writes: In an expression of determination or euphoria?. What you find with the typical grad student, even on the first day, is theyre thinking about books and concepts. We knew where it came from, we knew it was designed culturally for us, for Black men, people of color, Jackson said. Hayes shares what he's learned about the VFW since starting his new position. previous 1 2 next . This makes the work morally ambiguous in ways some readers will resist: I suspect that not everybody will recognize blackness as any part, even a rejected part, of Trump, a man whose loathing of black people seems unabashed. Hayes is preparing to file for post-conviction relief. Trumpet reinforces. [1] Or maybe they wont. Ive always tried to stay very focused in terms of what I need to write. But Im still trying to get people to the table. I had no sense of what kind of avenues might open up. He was the type of professor whose house youd visit, and all my family had met him before he passed. Because Oregon is 76% white and 2% Black, according to U.S. Census figures, critics say its rare to see more than one or two black jurors assigned to any jury. Depending on what space Im in, depending on what kind of water Im in, people see me in very different ways. In Dont Call Us Dead, the poet brings the unruly power of performance to the written word. TAYLOR: And then there's these other moments where it's really unclear who he's talking to. Reverting to childhood may be an impossibility, but it is the solitary unquestionable way to recuperate unblemished happiness . in the face the music of his wrist-. TH: The thing that is always a challenge from one poem to the next is managing time. For me, that wouldnt be enough. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, "Pittsburgh poet Terrance Hayes named MacArthur Fellow", "Briefing Books: Lauded poet Terrance Hayes heads to Pitt", The End of the Line: Terrance Hayes and Formal Innovation, "John Simom Guggenheim Memorial Foundation >2009 Fellow in Creative Arts - Poetry > Terrance Hayes Bio", "MacArthur Awards Go to 21 Diverse Fellows", "The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes", "United States Artists Official Website Terrance Hayes", Profile and poems of Terrance Hayes, including audio files. I have to trust my own perception as opposed to waiting for someone to tell you how to fix it, which is what happens in an MFA program. The group is just trying to remind people this still exists, said Gregory McKelvey, a local Democratic activist and strategist for the campaign. TH: Thats an interesting question. The university seems to be fairly fixed and stable, where James Joyce is more important than Fuck Up Some Commas. But for me, the university is as fluid and as responsive as the culture is. Then Toi, it just so happened, was reading in South Carolina around the time I was thinking, Can I really do this? and I went to the reading and met her, and I decided I was going to. He can quickly rattle off their ages 9, 5, 2, 3, and one that is almost a year old though birthdays may prove to be more difficult. So I feel like, if Im going to make a meal, were going to sit down at the table and eat it together. His name was Jack French, and he actually called up Maya Angelou for me when he was trying to convince me that I could do this. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. What I would say to him is that I was just trying to build up a surface. Tess, thanks so much. Ginsbergs comrades sang out of their windows in despair, jumped in the filthy Passaic, leaped on negroes, and danced on broken wineglasses barefoot smashed phonograph records. The white bohemians have the freedom to go on benders and sprees, while Hayes must wonder how to hold my face. He is not afraid of looking goofy; he is afraid of being murdered. I have to fight in ways that a normal American doesnt have to, he said. Everybody assumes that the I is a confessional I, and they assume that with me, but I find its a useful device so I can lie to people in plain sight. This interview took place on June 24 and July 1, 2016, in Pittsburgh. The poet also received a MacArthur fellowship in 2014 as. Which is to say, A nigga can survive. Activists point to New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams, who opted not to wait for a court ruling on retroactivity. Its not like you could move something out just because it happens to not look like you. I dont want there to be a great distance between me as an individual walking down the street and in the poems, because they feed each other, and one illuminates the other. So when my mother saw my earliest poems in the first book, she was like, Oh, it was just your imagination.. And theres a lot of ways to choose a side. That means if youre reading a poem that has a reference to Ol Dirty Bastard, thats an academic poem, because not everybody will know who he is, and you have to go research. You know a lot of things, but you havent spent a whole bunch of time in one area. Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. JW: Where would you place your work? Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous. Im not saying its confessional, but it gives more texture to your work if you can figure out how not to close off those rooms. By Dan Chiasson. There are definitely 14 lines per poem, so that's that sonnet form that you may or may not remember from your 10th grade English class. I read To Autumn by Keats, and I was like, This is blowing my mind! What do you think universities can do? I mean, he could've just given the book that title and called each sonnet one, two, three, four, five or the first line of the poem. In Multnomah County, where Blacks are 6% of the population, they represent 45.3% of petitioners. You obviously did OK, but how did it go in the program? This is not the first time Rosenblum has stood in the way of striking down nonunanimous jury verdicts in Oregon. Thats my attitude in the workshop, too. I also thought that, when I finished, I would just go back home. None of those were affected by the Ramos decision. In seventy sonnets written after Trumps election, Hayes manages boundless anxiety with formal innovation. by Major Jackson. Thats the Stephen King end of things. And yet I still feel like theres something wrong with trying to force me to support the troops., Ive always had a sense of moving into spaces where I felt a little bit different. When I got in, the joy of college was my teachers. by. Even if you cant see underneath all of it, I know that theres a face of a boy and that Ive built it up. But then there are the poems that are just about feelings and about family, and maybe you dont have to have a dictionary or internet next to you. Copyright 2018 NPR. My skepticism around strategy is that it doesnt have room for failure. I would say, first, thats who I am. I could talk to myself in a room and come up with something, but I wouldnt want to only do only that. Get book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. So maybe thats a form of ambivalence. from Coker University and an M.F.A. So for basketball scholarships, it was going to be D-II or D-III, and I thought that was the only way I was going to go to school. So in the last year or two, I did take pictures of the paintings going through these various stages. Whether thats a black barbershop, or working as a temp in an office, or working in a warehouse, I always felt there was nobody in that space like me. Even though I had not done that much poetry, it seemed cheaper. The Still in Prison campaign is working to raise public awareness about the impact of Oregons law. To go back to your point about the later books, in Lighthead, the first poem begins with a line, I could never get the hang of Time, and the epigraph is a Borges quote from A New Refutation of Time. At some point I realized, even more than fatherhood, even more than parents, even more than race, the thing Im really obsessed with is measuring time. Im interested in Shakespeare, but especially how Shakespeare is in conversation with Scooby-Doo or The Walking Dead. Maybe its generational, too. Trending. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Of course I was wrong, but its become a practice that Im still trying to read as much as I can. I would not want to do thatalthough maybe I will when Im eighty. In other cases, such as Hayes, Rosenblum wouldnt directly determine whether a retrial is warranted, but as the states chief legal officer her decision would set a precedent that others would likely follow. Americas struggle with itselfHas always had people like me at the heart of it. Its gonna be work, its gonna be a hobby, its gonna be something I love., jding@oregonian.com; 503-221-4395; @j_dingdingding. She has an opportunity to do right by it, and she hasnt.. JW: There are more than four hundred creative writing programs in the United States. I also sent in storiesit was an MFA in creative writing, not just poetry, and I didnt know they had different sects. Whether thats a black barbershop, or working as a temp in an office, or working in a warehouse, I always felt there was nobody in that space like me., Im not that interested in anything other than making something, playing with something, and it doesnt have to be anything other than poetry., On Choosing a New York I Didn't Think I Wanted. On May 27, 1999, 22-year-old Terrence Haynes was standing on the porch of a friend, Gary Hammond Jr., in Kankakee, Illinois, when 18-year-old Cezaire Murrell walked up the sidewalk, shoved a man out of the way, and came onto the porch to confront Haynes. While no agency or body in the state tracks nonunanimous convictions, a study by Oregons Office of Public Defense Services in 2009 found more than 40% of the 662 convictions it surveyed from 2007 and 2008 were nonunanimous. JW: One downside with the glut of information now is that theres no stable core of references. Some of the older teachers crowd in the doorway like befuddled geese. I need the tension of asking myself day to day, Is that what I think? Maybe thats what gets called ambivalence or curiosity or even just playingand it was different when I was in my twenties. JW: I want to come back to how you reflect upon your own success, but first I want to ask about your relation to art. You are beautiful because of your sadness, Hayes admits. Thats what I find interesting, and to have that wall stops it. Its all these other things and the more, the better. If I switch metaphorsand Ive had this argument with Mary Karrits like if you make a meal and your audience is waiting to eat it, but when you put it on the table, they have to watch you eat it. Hayes' 14-line projects react to the poet's own frustration with his fame (which eats up his time with worthy obligations, isolates him, and cannot give him peace), as well as reacting . (Courtesy of Lynn James-Jackson), POST-CONVICTION RELIEF: CHANCE FOR RETRIAL. TH: Yeah, but its not always just my imagination. Assassin, you are a mystery/To me, I say to my reflection sometimes, Hayes writes, acknowledging the part anyone plays in his own existential undoing. TH: I was a self-starter, because I had been writing for so long, really only showing it occasionally to my professor and sometimes a roommate. TH: Thats a great question. He was a Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University until 2013, at which time he joined the faculty at the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. I feel like this is true in the poetry process. Baraka would say your obligation is to feed black people. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. Thats Wallace Stevens or T.S. With success, you get encouraged to think, Im so special that people will just watch me be me. So when Pacino starts being himself in his movies and stops acting, people accept that and say, Oh, its Al Pacino! This is one of the deepest accounts I have read in poetry of what it feels like to have ones body fetishized as an object but criminalized as a force. The joke in my classes and in my household is that I am always timing and measuring everything. It was a room of low-residency MFA people in Tampa, and I said, Half of you are going to get what I say about abstract expressionism, cubism, Rothko, and Picasso, and half of you are going to get The Simpsons, Lil Wayne, and Future, this new rapper. Why do I have to separate those out? Of his son the way one twilight matches another. JW: What was it like when you were in grad school? Maybe the one thats covered up is more interesting, and maybe the last result is sort of a failure, but thats all right, Im still going through the process. Thelonious Monk says there is no failure, theres only rehearsal and practice. JW:: How did you end up at Pitt for grad school? When you look at all of the MFA programs, very few offer alternatives other than looking for an academic job, but I say to folks all the time, It is not your only option.. JW: College was pivotal for you, and you work in a university. Each one is called "American Sonnet For My Past And Future Assassin" - almost identical as the title of the collection. Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. Because I wasnt in a class and didnt have to turn it in at the end of the week and revise it and turn it in again in a portfolio at the end of the semester, I could just work. He is currently distinguished professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and also distinguished visiting writer at New York University. JW: I can see how youre a time poet rather than a space poet. Edmunson said if the office chose to do as people are suggesting, it would not be based on the current state of the law either federal or state.. Terrance Hayes is a poet who reflects on race, gender, and family in works marked by formal dexterity and a reverence for history and the artistry of crafting verse. And if jurors of color dissent from the majority, their votes effectively dont count, critics say. My sense is that the synthesis is what the university can do. TH: Or I might have become a high school English teacher. Tacuma Jackson, 46, is shown with his three granddaughters. You have the same judge that has the ability to rectify this offense particularly because this law is particularly steeped in racism, Hayes said. I dont think about everybody that looks the same; I dont know who those people are, but Im going to feed them. The alphabet, like the sonnet, necessitates at least some shaping and pruning. Witnessing the struggle for freedom, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement. Its twenty seconds for each stanza, and Im trying to create out of these twenty-second lyric bursts a narrative that holds together. In my last year, I had done a series of paintings on ceiling tiles. They sometimes say, Theres all this new work, and youre still trying to make us read these old white dudes from the canon. Last year at Yale, some students protested, saying, Why do we have to read all these white guys? As a poet, you know your limitations, and those limitations are the form of the person or the poet. Who those people are, I dont really think too much about that. Probably someone is prey in all of our encounters. Almost everywhere in this country every day. Since this means there will be no classes for the rest He understood the rhythm of a deltaFarmer on guitar in a juke joint circa 1933, as wellAs the rhythm of your standard bohemian on guitarIn a New York apartment amid daydreams of jumpingThrough windows, ballads of footwork, Monk orchestras,Miles with strings. You can insert anything in that but certainly fluidity in terms of faculty and aesthetics. My approach to life and my work is not strategy. Then I stood them up, and I had a grid of images. Hes still on post-prison supervision. JW: So your obligation is to ask questions? June 25, 2018. If youve got a restaurant and youre McDonalds, you cant sell sushi, you just make burgers. Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. JW: You do sometimes talk about race and recent politics. In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal constraints, Hayes considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity. Hayes said hes disappointed in Rosenblums decision to wait, especially with her being the judge that oversaw his case 16 years before. I was born in 71, and we had multitasking and were in the electronic age. Terrance Hayes, Hip Logic, Penguin Books, 2002. Anything else connected to that is just gravy. It gets into the art for arts sake versus social purpose argument, but I think the real purpose is who do you want at the table with you? It can synthesize historical knowledge and research and contextualize those things, because its happening right now. The you, now & then of the last line is, I take it, the reader and also the assassin. TH: I feel limited as a painter. [4] Currently, he teaches at New York University.[5]. If I dont do something about this, then they still have to deal with all the stigmas that come with a father with a violent history, he said. Activists want Rosenblum to act now, otherwise an answer could be months away. In seventy sonnets written after Trump's election, Hayes manages boundless anxiety with formal innovation. Critics argued these laws are a relic from a racist past that marginalize minority jurors. The prognosis does not seem promising. She cited the practical consequences of allowing hundreds, potentially thousands of past cases be retried. How do you see that affecting creative writing programs? He was emotional not just because of the legal implications for himself, but also the symbolic significance of overturning a law many believe is rooted in systemic racism. TH: Once your picture is up at the airport, theres always people making proposals to you about what they think your name could lend to their ventures. His new work, Hip Logic, is full of poetic tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T, as well as poems based on the anagram principle of words within a word. On the other hand, it has to be gratifying. I did high jump and the four-hundred-meter relay. I wrote them one at a time, and there are six, because a box has six sides. Hes an older, white dude, and he was saying that he had been a victim of molestation, and he said, Once youve seen what real evil can do in the world, you know you dont have the luxury of saying, well, Hitler was a painter too. So I said to him, I actually dont disagree, I just feel like I could be nave for a while and pursue truth, and at the end of that, if I see something thats evil, I will say its evil. How would you characterize your writing? Im a dialectical thinker. Allen Grossman said, when people ask, What are your poems about? he says, Poetry, the subject is always poetry. I find that to be very useful as a maker of poems, even though thats frustrating for readers. That figure is just moving around. Terrance Hayes segregate On the first morning of school there is a young tree- frog waiting patiently at the front gate. The "Racket of ascension" is emblematic of the social progress that results in the upgrading of one's social rank. The idea that language in and of itself is a material or communicates sound that is a materialthat interests me. On the first morning of school there is a young tree- I thought, Wow, a poem a week? Even now, I really dont show people stuff when Im working on it. TH: Flexibility is what makes a good program. Terrance Hayes observes, "Even if you love the racket of ascension,/you must know how the power leaves you.". Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. I was excited for folks, but I understood there was gonna be people like me who would ask for relief and have to fight to get it, Hayes said. Army Veteran and former VA employee, Terrence Hayes, is the VFW's National Director of Communications. The sonnet clips its authors wingsand yet a wide sample of appetites and aversions, vices and virtues, sneaks into it. Terrence L. Hayes, press secretary, Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs: Prior to assuming the role of VA press secretary, Terrence Hayes served as national director of Communication and Public Affairs for the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Youre a synthetic poet. TH: You get that with students. But Id say thats always been true. I wouldnt limit it there: I would say, yes, Im African-American; yes, Im Southern; yes, Im male; yes, Im hip-hop; yes, Im neurotic; yes, Im a bastard poet. Probably all my encounters. In the lines from Howl that, I suspect, Hayes has in mind, you can see how blackness is used as a prop. I feel like thats what I aspire to. If were talking about class, the people who could survive as poets before were people who were wealthy already. In her statement announcing she had filed a brief in the Ramos case, she cited the practical consequences that could result from overturning cases. I dont think Ashbery thinks that. That has helped me deal with the success, because the success still feels very ephemeral or temporary, and it certainly hasnt helped me write poems. There was black male reviewBy suits in the offices, the courts & waiting rooms.There was black male review in the weight roomsWhere coaches licked their whistles. If I see something is wrong, I will say its wrong. Terrence Hayes was 19 when he shot a man in the leg in 2004. Something happened. The following interview appears in the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. What the University of Pittsburgh and also distinguished visiting writer at New York University. [ ]. 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