Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we’ll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Poems from Prison,” on the relationship between Knight and prison and becoming a poet. This talk was originally given April 2, 2015, at the Poetry Foundation.

Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. To view a few of Hayes's correlative drawings from the book, click here.

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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