#terrance hayes

From“To Float in the Space Between”byTerrance Hayes in the July/August issueofPoetry.

[image: Ink drawings on white lined paper (as if from a notebook) in the segmented style of comic panels, with text from the Etheridge Knight poem “For Langston Hughes.” First image has a series of figures walking in a line across a landscape of varied shapes and textures with the title of the poem handwritten in the sky above them, followed by the line, “Another weaver of black dreams has gone.” Second image is a close portrait of a man or two men across several panels in a background of silhouettes and shapes with some continuing text from the poem, “we sat in June Bug’s pad with the shades drawn/ and the air thick with holy smoke.”]

On October 25th, Terrance Hayes and Ellen Gallagher talked about the intersections of poetry and art, taking inspiration from nature, and the influence of politics on art.