by Rich SmithHayes reads tonight at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute at 7 pm. RS
There have been many attempts to reckon with the rolling shocks of Donald Trump's election and presidency, but nobody has done it better than Terrance Hayes in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a collection of 70 sonnets written during the first 200 days of Trump's reign. Following in the grand tradition of the American sonneteer (see: Wanda Coleman, Gerald Stern, Jean Toomer, Rita Dove), Ha
There have been many attempts to reckon with the rolling shocks of Donald Trump's election and presidency, but nobody has done it better than Terrance Hayes in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, a collection of 70 sonnets written during the first 200 days of Trump's reign. Following in the grand tradition of the American sonneteer (see: Wanda Coleman, Gerald Stern, Jean Toomer, Rita Dove), Ha