CreativeMornings/PGH featuring Terrance Hayes
8:30a–10a
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
5941 Penn Ave :: Map
Presented by CreativeMornings/Pittsburgh
CreativeMornings/Pittsburgh is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk and Q&A.
This month CreativeMornings/Pittsburgh features Terrance Hayes, for a talk on the theme of Language. Hayes is the author of Lighthead (Penguin 2010), winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are Wind In a Box (Penguin 2006), Hip Logic (Penguin 2002), and Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999). His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a United States Artists Zell Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn (Penguin 2015), his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
Tickets are free, but registration is required. CreativeMornings/Pittsburgh would like to thank this month’s sponsors Winchester Thurston School and FreeBurgh for helping to make this event possible.
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