Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes

is an award-winning author and poet. His most recent book is To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight. He is an Artist-in-Residence in the creative writing program at New York University.


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I Am Your Negro Sometimes
Poet Terrance Hayes on the James Baldwin documentary: “It seemed, for a moment, we had come around a big bend on the racial mountain. It seemed, for a moment, we were beyond Negro.”

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