HOW WE BREATHE
Presenting Terrance Hayes: A Poet of These Times moderated by Clint Smith plus The Writer’s Room

Author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin and National Book Award winner (for Lighthead), Terrance Hayes reads and discusses his work. Clint Smith, poet, staff writer at The Atlantic, and author of the forthcoming How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America moderates.

Terrance Hayes from 7:00 – 8:00 pm (Zoom Webinar)
https://marylandlibraries.zoom.us/j/98821267541?pwd=TjZFdndjR1gyM0U3ZDZaUHNsbG5KQT09

The Writer’s Room from 8:00 – 8:30 pm (Zoom Meeting)
Eventbrite registration requested.
https://clf2021-terrance-hayes.eventbrite.com

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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. Library of Congress recently awarded him the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for American Sonnets. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-politics-and-play-of-terrance-hayes
https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-2010-11/about-terrance-hayes

CLINT SMITH is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent. The book won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has received fellowships from New America, the Emerson Collective, the Art For Justice Fund, Cave Canem, and the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and elsewhere. Born and raised in New Orleans, he received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.

*After the program, which will be held as a Zoom Webinar, those attending who wish to engage further with the featured authors about craft should register for The Writer’s Room through Eventbrite. The Writer’s Room is a new Festival highlight designed to engage festival attendees, who are also writers, in an informal conversation with the featured guest authors. Participants are encouraged to come prepared with questions. They will receive a link to attend an informal Zoom Meeting through Eventbrite where featured authors will join attendees virtually face to face. Featured guest artists are open to discussing different aspects of writing including questions about craft, research, writing process, challenges, and questions about publication.

The Zoom Meeting link for The Writer’s Room will also be shared in the chat during the main talk.

Zoom Webinar: Featured authors cannot see attendees (Cameras OFF and only the featured author can be seen.)

Zoom Meeting: Featured authors join attendees where everyone who attends can be seen. (Cameras ON and everyone in attendance can be seen unless you turn off your video.)

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CityLit in partnership with Enoch Pratt Free Library presents CityLit Festival: Reimagined. This virtual celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers throughout March, including a special event each week with day-long sessions on March 20th. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.

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