Video: Poet Terrance Hayes Reads at Cave Canem 2012
by Sampsonia Way / August 15, 2012 / No comments
On June 21, Cave Canem, in partnership with City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, presented a free reading on Pittsburgh’s Monterey Street where Terrance Hayes read, along with poets Nikky Finney, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and Angela Jackson.
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Poet Terrance Hayes, National Book Award winner, at the annual Cave Canem poetry reading in Pittsburgh. Photo: Renee Rosensteel.
He is Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University and a Cave Canem faculty member.
Poems
1. “The Rose Has Teeth” (0:00)
2. “New York Poem” (3:44)
3. “How To be Drawn to Trouble” (5:44)
4. “The Deer” (11:12)
5. “When Given a Choice” (14:16)
6. “Wigtastic” (18:25)