Reported by Jake Weber

ALBION, Mich. – One of America’s most exciting and promising poets, Terrance Hayes, reads from two award-winning books, plus some new work, on Monday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in Herrick Auditorium. Hayes comes to Albion College as the 2006 Wilson Poet.

Poet Cornelius Eady chose Hayes’ second book, “Hip Logic,” for inclusion in the National Poetry Series, noting “first you’ll marvel at his skill … his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you’ll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world.”

“Hayes’s poems are wickedly funny, socially conscious, poetically inventive, and an absolute pleasure to read,” said Albion College English professor Helena Mesa. “He has permanently situated himself in the contemporary American poetry canon. A true firecracker.”

Hayes’ debut collection, “Muscular Music,” received both the Whiting Emerging Writers Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Currently an associate professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, Hayes is the recipient of several other writing awards, and has been published in numerous poetry and literary journals.

The Wilson Visiting Poet Award was created by C. Thomas and Frances Wilson, both Albion College alumni, to bring poets to the campus. This event is sponsored by the Albion College English Department, and the annual Wilson Poet series. For more information, contact assistant professor of English Helena Mesa at 517/629-0438 or hmesa@albion.edu.

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