University of Pittsburgh English Professor Set for New York Times Magazine Poetry Duty

Terrance Hayes will select and briefly introduce poems.

There’s a lot to ponder in Terrance Hayes’ biographical details. For example, not too may individuals can point to both All-American basketball honors while in college followed by a MacArthur Foundation 2014 fellowship.

Per the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hayes, an English professor at Pitt university and co-director of the Center for African American Poetry, will start next month as The New York Times Magzine’s third poetry editor:

Born in Columbia, S.C., Mr. Hayes studied painting and English at Coker College in Hartsville, S.C.,

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