Whats going to be left out? JW: College was pivotal for you, and you work in a university. How does that bear on your poetry? What I hate is a white canvas, and I dont like one layer of paint. I have a friend whos a critic, and he said that my work was an anthem to ambivalence. So when my mother saw my earliest poems in the first book, she was like, Oh, it was just your imagination.. In fact, I tried to do that, all the contemporary poetry books and the books on the Pitt Press, because I assumed that everybody else had. TH: Yeah, but its not always just my imagination. To avoid confusion across jurisdictions in Oregon, post-conviction relief proceedings should be consistent across the state to avoid confusion and future litigation.. In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal constraints, Hayes considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity. You say it's really inventive. Depending on what space Im in, depending on what kind of water Im in, people see me in very different ways. Doing that, she argued, would re-traumatize crime victims and survivors and overwhelm our states criminal justice system.. JW: What was it like when you were in grad school? Jackson was still in prison when he heard about the Supreme Court ruling. Terrance Hayes, Hip Logic, Penguin Books, 2002. None of those were affected by the Ramos decision. You come from a small town in South Carolina and went to college because you had a basketball scholarship. Critics argued these laws are a relic from a racist past that marginalize minority jurors. Im always torn between the dilemma of saying there has to be something worthwhile to someone other than myself, even though I can get pretty far just eating what I make for myself and having no one else at the table. The defendant can claim a constitutional violation occurred during the trial in this case, Jackson and his attorney would argue Ramos applies to him, which could grant him a retrial. The girls are eager to transform him with a kiss; the boys eager TH: Maybe a satirical question like in Support the Troops! where Im asking, why should I support them? Then in Lighthead, theres a lot of fire throughout the book, so Im playing around with the paradox of fire and lighting things up. Hayes said hes fortunate to have been able to get his electricians license in prison, an opportunity afforded to only a handful of people, and he found a job in July. (Im one of the few people I know of in my cohort that doesnt do social media. In January, Jackson was granted early release by Gov. Of course I was wrong, but its become a practice that Im still trying to read as much as I can. I dont think Ashbery thinks that. 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. Hayes is preparing to file for post-conviction relief. Thats a nightmare for me. The Still in Prison campaign is working to raise public awareness about the impact of Oregons law. Since then, he's won a huge number of literary prizes, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Who those people are, I dont really think too much about that. He was a Yankee and he was generally bored and impatient with everything about the South, but he liked me and he thought I was special. Bridging those things is my natural way of thinking, and I think of that as a collage. Something happened. Hayes, who is forty-six, won the 2010 National Book Award and is a professor at N.Y.U. I would do what everyone else does. The best stuff still hasnt happened. I dont think the number increases or decreases the potential for finding real brilliance in the pool. Its gonna be work, its gonna be a hobby, its gonna be something I love., jding@oregonian.com; 503-221-4395; @j_dingdingding. He and his wife, Sanoba Hayes, traveled across the country reconnecting with family members when he first came home in 2016. Hayes said hes disappointed in Rosenblums decision to wait, especially with her being the judge that oversaw his case 16 years before. I feel like thats something I cant do: the canvas is not big enough to fully capture consciousness in a poem. But now theres digital or social media, which people like my daughter are very aware of. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Blacks make up 2% of Oregons population, but they represent 17.9% of petitioners. In his quiet Southeast Portland townhouse, Jackson said he can walk outside and hear the birds and the woodpeckers. TH: Thats a great question. Hayes lives in Manhattan, and he and his ex-wife, the poet Yona Harvey, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, share the custody of their two children. It can synthesize historical knowledge and research and contextualize those things, because its happening right now. Theres some moments in David Foster Wallaces nonfiction, like Consider the Lobster, that do it. The Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association is on board. Maybe its generational, too. His own attempt to cook for the first time again hes embarrassed to say resulted in a burnt grilled cheese sandwich. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In the Ramos case, three dissenting justices were concerned that states could face a potential tsunami of litigation if all active cases with nonunanimous jury convictions were invalidated. 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 JW: Do you think its because you had an anomalous path coming into poetry? Thats manifested in the pecha kucha poems in Lighthead: theyre not measurements of meter; theyre measurements of time. gas. JW: When you went to Coker College, you went for visual arts. She cited the practical consequences of allowing hundreds, potentially thousands of past cases be retried. In my last year, I had done a series of paintings on ceiling tiles. 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. 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. Reverting to childhood may be an impossibility, but it is the solitary unquestionable way to recuperate unblemished happiness . But for myself, I try not to think about it too much. Poetry is the end for me. The problem is what to do with them after that, if they cant get a job teaching? Thats the Stephen King end of things. I know you paint and have for a long time. Ive always tried to stay very focused in terms of what I need to write. Witnessing the struggle for freedom, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement. Its powerful because its not an invective so much as a diagnosis. Its in Lighthead, and that poem is in conversation with The Same City, about meeting this man who is my father, where he says to me, God made nothing sweeter than pussy. The growth of the poems is very local, and when they become confessional, its because Im trying to become someone better from one day to the next, or come to terms with the ways I cant be better from one day to the next. This story was amended March 22, 2021, to clarify that Rosenblum would not handle Hayes post-conviction relief case because he is no longer in custody nor is he on post-prison supervision. But if I find a flaw, I feel myself coming up against a statement like that. If I see something is wrong, I will say its wrong. Part of the reason for the relatively low number is insufficient data in many cases, defendants will never know if they were convicted by a split jury because their lawyer never asked and it was never preserved in court records, Kaplan said. How do you see that affecting creative writing programs? Maybe theyll like caviar, maybe youll like octopus. Both of those are equally romantic and equally problematic. [9], In praising Hayes's work, Cornelius Eady has said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Trump is a palpable undercurrent throughout the book, and occasionally Hayes addresses the President directly, calling him Mr. He envies poets who have the luxury of wandering into all corners of American life. I was born in 71, and we had multitasking and were in the electronic age. TH: Yeah, a full ride. How did you win this? And I say, I didnt predict any of this. With each book, I think every poem is the last poem, every book is the last book. 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. So suddenly, it's as if he himself is the assassin. But I have no nose, no mouth, so you tell me what's good, what's god, what's funky. The following interview appears in the Spring 2018 issue of The Iowa Review. And you cant force anybody to accept your art; you cant make people take the food that youre giving them. Accuracy and availability may vary. Theres an assumption in contemporary literature that writers represent their identities. Theyre also about identity, and some of them talk about race explicitly. I think about the next poem, because Im always thinking I could do better, and have I done the best I can? And yet I still feel like theres something wrong with trying to force me to support the troops. So if someone asked, Are you writing poems about race or Pittsburgh? Id say, No, Im writing poems about poetry.. Youre a synthetic poet. (Reading) A barn shootout endangering the farm life - I live a life that burns a hole through life that leaves a scar for life that makes me weep for another life. Probably twilight makes blackness, Darkness. TAYLOR: Yeah, that raise questions. And if jurors of color dissent from the majority, their votes effectively dont count, critics say. in their lockers & hustle to the windows to stare. "You belong in our swamps not our schools!" That goes to the question of how much you allow yourself to fail in your day-to-day practice. It allows me to not get too caught up in terms of privacy and secrecy across the poems. The Politics and Play of Terrance Hayes. 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. JW: So you went to Coker College because they gave you a scholarship in basketball? Hayess direct inspiration is the L.A. poet Wanda Coleman, who died in 2013 and who coined the term American sonnet. Coleman adapted the sonnet to the jazz methods of, as she put it, progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc. Hayess style is warier than Colemans. But Id say thats always been true. TH: What I think the university can do is bridge the things weve been discussing; it can bridge James Joyce and Future. If youve got a restaurant and youre McDonalds, you cant sell sushi, you just make burgers. 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. But their principal greets But I want it to yield something for my primary concerns: teaching and writing poetry. I think a novelist has to be a strategist of sorts and think this is the general structure Im working out. That informs my teaching, too, and that could be a problem for an MFA student or a young poet who wants a strategy and says, Tell me how to become a successful writer. Id say, I believe in experimenting, and some experiments succeed, and some fail.. . The poet Terrance Hayes first arrived on the scene in 1999 with a book called "Muscular Music." Its not necessarily thesis and antithesis, but several things that you might bring together. The day after the 2016 Presidential election, Terrance Hayes wrote the first of the seventy sonnets collected in his new book, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. Time had been altered in some baleful and uncertain way; the sonnet offered an alternative unit of measurement, at once ancient, its basic features unchanged for centuries, and urgent, its fourteen lines passing at a brutal clip. The group is just trying to remind people this still exists, said Gregory McKelvey, a local Democratic activist and strategist for the campaign. What I would say to him is that I was just trying to build up a surface. 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. A security guard fetches the tear- Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has the power to allow post-conviction relief cases be sent back to county district attorneys for retrial. So for someone to say this is your audience and you have to give people the thing theyll really eat, Im saying you dont know what peoples capacity is. The sonnet clips its authors wingsand yet a wide sample of appetites and aversions, vices and virtues, sneaks into it. 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. Sometimes he uses sonnets to stump the reader: This word can be the difference between knowing/And thinking. frog waiting patiently at the front gate. Most black people know thisAbout him. That is what I value in a workshop. It seems more ambivalent, too. Hayes and Jackson have already served their decades in prison, but their felonies remain on their records a scarlet letter that continues to affect every aspect of their lives, even in freedom. The Supreme Courts Ramos v. Louisiana ruling allowed the verdict to be tossed out in many nonunanimous jury convictions that were still in the appeals process. It gives me a way to not be limited. The standard bohemian listeners are like the angelheaded hipsters in Allen Ginsbergs Howl. They dream of melodramatic self-destructionjumping/Through windowswhile the culture around them works to extinguish black artistry. Terrance Hayes is a contemporary American poet born in 1971. Eliot, so the model for the poet who lives as a poet would primarily be rich white dudes. 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. When he left the Oregon State Penitentiary two decades later, he had grandchildren. Its like James Joyce and Molly Bloom and a fifty-page sentenceJames Joyce really fucked some commas up. 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. TH: Gentle Measures almost went into Lighthead, but I just didnt have it finished. In my body of work, thats what Im aiming for, and I never can get it. TH: Most workshops are set up around strategy, but theyre not set up around failure. On the one hand, it seems like your career was accidental. from Coker University and an M.F.A. Im not doing enough as an individual if Im not seeking out new experiences, new people, being challenged, being honest with who I am, or my poems are going to be stuck. Its not like the basketball team. My deepest ambition is always for the poem, but the growth comes from trying to not get stuck as a human being. Are there particular ideas that you gravitate toward or that have influenced you? 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. Another one of my English teachers had gone to Pitt in the sixties, and he talked to Toi Derricotte, and she talked to me and told me to apply. The group is seeking support and placing the spotlight on Rosenblum urging her to take action now. In his five books, he has perfected a sort of poem where wild jams carom inside arbitrary formal boundaries. I wish I were as tolerant as Walt Whitman, Hayes wrote in a poem from an earlier volume, but I want to be a storm covering a Confederate parade. Whitmans freedom to waltz across the battlefield like a song does not exist for a black poet in America. [1] In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work. Its the right thing to do; we shouldnt wait for a court ruling to do this, association legislative director Mae Lee Browning told The Oregonian/OregonLive. Some of the older teachers crowd in the doorway like befuddled geese. Or am I going to break a line here? Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. Thelonious Monk says there is no failure, theres only rehearsal and practice. This is not the first time Rosenblum has stood in the way of striking down nonunanimous jury verdicts in Oregon. Showing 30 distinct works. Sign up for the Books & Fiction newsletter. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Born in 1971 in Columbia, SC, Hayess mother was a corrections officer and father a military barber. Terrance Hayes. In his poems, in which he occasionally invents formal constraints, Hayes considers themes of popular culture, race, music, and masculinity. 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. I feel like thats what I aspire to. When Im writing poems, I can get an immediate pleasure but still feel like theres something on the other side of that, which is what I go to novels for, like One Hundred Years of Solitude. TAYLOR: Perpetual - yes. You've got the soundtrack. He had been in Vietnam, and I think he worked as one of JFKs speech-writers or something like that, but he had left all of that and had this big horse farm in Camden. Terrance Hayes is the author of Wind in a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002) and Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Classics, 2005 and Tia Chucha Press, 1999). JW: There are more than four hundred creative writing programs in the United States. I didnt really know any college graduates other than my teachers. I think I read somewhere that you only took one creative writing course. I thought, Wow, a poem a week? Even now, I really dont show people stuff when Im working on it. The alphabet, like the sonnet, necessitates at least some shaping and pruning. TH: The other side would be the question of failure. of the ball and chain around . Photo by Kathy Ryan. by Major Jackson. [3] He received a B.A. In his fight for a retrial, Jackson is joined by a coalition that is beginning to form around the issue. I also was in track and field. I learned this stuff in college, and it has become one way for me to understand what metaphor is. Trumpet reinforces. I knew I could talk to this professor about Faulkner because he was teaching it. Like, sometimes he says something as mysterious as, (reading) assassin, you are a mystery to me, I say to my reflection sometimes. Almost everywhere in this country every day. My interest is not what people expect from me as a poet; I know I can make burgers, but can I make sushi? Im not sure how to hold my face when I dance, he writes: In an expression of determination or euphoria?. Thats what the academy is: knowing how to find things you dont know, as opposed to these are the things you should know. And to me, academic discourse is about making connections and contextualizing. The challenge is to convince students that thats viable. What's going on here? 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. 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 . When I stop by McDonalds for a cheeseburger, no one suspects what I am. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world. I like the texture of it, so the only way to get to that is to keep painting stuff and erasing it, and painting on top of it and struggling with it so the layers would be hidden. Terrence Hayes is known for Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (2017), Knives Out (2019) and Manchester by the Sea (2016). Another U.S. Supreme Court case, however, could address it sooner. Some of the resources available to me now allow me to put myself in new situations, but that has never been my ambition. And I think, if I was really trying to fully capture consciousness, I would have to leave poems. I think he could just sit down, listen to some music every day, and feel like he could make an interesting poem. Should I mirror the rhythm of her hips,Or should I take the lead? Hayes shares what he's learned about the VFW since starting his new position. I also thought that, when I finished, I would just go back home. The editors discuss two poems by Terrance Hayes called "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" from the September 2017 issue of Poetry. I just try to be transparent and very present, and then see what happens. Then it was three years, and I was done. JW: One downside with the glut of information now is that theres no stable core of references. I wrote them one at a time, and there are six, because a box has six sides. I dont necessarily have to commit to one circle, even though I feel people pulling me, Be on my team, be on my team! and Im not sure if I want to be only in your part of the house. But then there is that other part of me that walks up the street and watches CNN and hears stories, and it is true that I inhabit this world and want to respond to that. 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. They want Rosenblum to give them that chance. 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. Copyright 2018 NPR. I think for younger people especially, everything is so simultaneous now. The thing that limits people sometimes is that, at a certain age, they start to say, This is what I do.. in the face the music of his wrist-. Ive always had a sense of moving into spaces where I felt a little bit different. Maybe youll try this? And maybe well generate poems that arent done or finished, but at least weve made something new. Some of my undergraduate students dont know that there is another way of learning. TH: Or I might have become a high school English teacher. Terrance Hayes began writing this innovative "crown" (or "corona") of sonnets the day after Donald Trump was elected US president, and Trump himself is clearly among the company addressed . I would say, first, thats who I am. She could choose to let those peoples cases through and let them start over and get a fair trial, Kaplan said. JW: And the decision is how big the table is. Terrance Hayes observes, "Even if you love the racket of ascension,/you must know how the power leaves you.". Tacuma Jackson, 46, is shown with his three granddaughters. I was wired that way from the outset, as a college kid without any concern with where it was going to go or who was going to like it. Emphasizing the necessity for African American people to adapt to the unfair standards of modern American society, Hayes demonstrates the struggles that vulnerable racial minorities have to suffer in order to gain a semblance of hope in advancing in the social hierarchy. Its unclear how the court will rule. The sonnet, an Italian contrivance adapted by the poets of the English Renaissance, was handed down to twentieth-century writers like Robert Lowell and Gwendolyn Brooks and self-consciously Americanizedits gait loosened, its politics sharpened. The poet Terrance Hayes first arrived on the scene in 1999 with a book called "Muscular Music." Since then, he's won a huge number of literary prizes, including a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. I say to students that its fine to not know stuff, but you have to research everything. Or Toni Morrison. JW: Do you consider yourself an African-American poet? NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. The university space should be, ideally, a fluid space, but instead we often encounter people saying, This is at the top of the pyramid, and everything else is beneath it. I think that a good program values Language poets the same way they value Black Arts poets and confessional poets. Rosenblum, who initially spoke in favor of repealing the law, eventually filed a brief in Ramos v. Louisiana opposing the U.S. Supreme Court overturning split jury verdicts. Its a pecha kucha, a Japanese form. That might be a better way of thinking about it. After Ive done a poem, then I can think about it as a piece of the puzzle and as a part of this whole thing, as opposed to writing one poem at a time, and when I get to twenty poems or forty poems, I have a book. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Sometimes black students and female students will say, They didnt teach black writers, or There werent that many women. And I say, Right, but thats the symptom of their era; now its a new era, but its not like we can just forget the canon. If a kid says, We dont need Mark Twain, I say the canon still has to be folded in. SHAPIRO: The most striking thing about this book when you open it up is that each poem has the same title. Terrance Hayes segregate On the first morning of school there is a young tree- frog waiting patiently at the front gate. Im going to starve if I dont eat it, but if I dont eat it, neither should you. I did help start the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, which is important in archiving poetry, but most of my concerns, over eighty percent, go toward teaching. I always thought I wasnt that much different from anybody else. Kate Brown, who has commuted sentences for more than 100 prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic. You write a poem, and you think its a failed poem, but maybe its a draft, and you just keep going onto the next poem. JW: Its hard to get around the question of jobs and the shrinkage of the academic profession. Thats the procedural crazy in our law that requires a ruling that says, this opinion is retroactive, Kaplan said. Probably someone is prey in all of our encounters. I smile at Ronald's poster, perpetual grin behind the pissed-off, fly-girl cashier I love. People can come and sit around and talk about work. 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. Share Tweet E-mail In Dont Call Us Dead, the poet brings the unruly power of performance to the written word. The conviction obstructs him in other ways. I mean, I can't actually remember another book that does this, where every single poem has the same title for an entire collection. In your first book, Muscular Music, you play with popular culture, but theres a stronger sense of self in your last two books. When I worked on it, after not having looked at it for two years, I decided it was still bad, and I was cool with that. Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous. People from the outside sometimes look at me and look at how things are going, and they say, You were very strategic. 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