Blacks in one box Blacks in two box Blacks on Blacks stacked in boxes stacked on boxes Blacks in boxes stacked on shores Blacks in boxes stacked on boats in darkness Blacks in boxes do not float Blacks in boxes count their losses Blacks on boat docks Blacks on auction Blacks on wagons Blacks with […]
Dear Parole Board of the Perennial Now, let me begin by saying it’s very likely none of my ex-wives will vouch for me. Let’s just say the parable of the Negro who uses his dick for a cane and the parable of the Negro who uses his cane for a dick convey the same message […]
We were in the car. We were heading home when Christian with his wholly American name & manic chatter told his girlfriend the woman we saw walking on the road with no umbrella was a symbol of torment.We were in the backseat– you with that face making the windows & the black world beyond the […]
Terrance Hayes is the author of four collections: Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry (Penguin, 2010); Wind in a Box (Penguin, 2006); Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002), which won the National Poetry Series; and Muscular Music (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2005, Tia Chucha Press, 1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. […]