| Terrance
Hayes
Poet and Educator
 Terrance
Hayes, a native of Columbia, South Carolina, earned a B.A. from
Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is
the author of Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Muscular Music (1999).
His poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea,
Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review and in two anthologies: Giant Steps:
The New Generation of African American Writers (ed. Kevin Young,
2000) and American Poetry: The Next Generation (eds. Gerald Costanzo
and Jim Daniels, 2000). He has received a Red Brick Review Award, a
Whiting Writers Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his
poetry. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in
1997, and was an assistant professor of English at Xavier University
in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Hayes received a Whiting Writers Award
and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book of poems,
Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). Wind In a Box, his third
book of poems, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2005.
Hayes currently lives with his family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
and teaches poetry courses at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Lyceum Series
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
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Sept.
15 — Cory Booker
"How To Change The World With Your Bare Hands
"
7:30 pm
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
Oct.
6 — Ida Hakim,
C.U.R.E. Founder and Curator
"Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation
"
7:30 pm
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
Nov.
2 — Francis Bok
7:30 pm
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
Nov.
9 — Joyce Appleby, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, University of California in Los Angeles
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
“Coming to Terms with Thomas Jefferson”
7:30 pm
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
Feb.
2 — Awadagin Pratt, Piano Virtuoso
Piano Recital
7:30 pm
The Jane M. Smith Memorial Church
Feb.
16 — JCSU Faculty Showcase: John Fitch, III
“Maxyme” Film Screening
4:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Newsom Humanities Building Room
March
9 — Dr. Charles L. Blockson
Historian and Curator
A Historian’s Quest: Research Above Ground and Underground
7:30 pm
TBA
March 29 —April 1: 9th Annual World
of Words Poetry Festival
March
29 —Terrence Hayes, Poet and Educator
Workshop
4:00 pm
Humanities 108
Poetry Reading
7:30 pm
Grimes Lounge
March
30 — JCSU Favorite Poems Night
Poetry Reading
7:00 pm
Grimes Lounge
March
31 — Ursula Rucker, Performance Poet and Recording Artist
Workshop
4:00 pm
Humanities 108
Poetry Performance
7:30 pm
Grimes Lounge
April
1 — Black Ink Monks, Inc. of Johnson C. Smith University
Fourth Annual Performance by the Black Ink Monks, Inc.
7:30 pm
Grimes Lounge
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