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.

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)