Music serves as both an animating force and resonant presence in Hayes’s poems, especially those of “How To Be Drawn,” his first volume since his 2010 National Book Award winning ...

Hayes, a winner of the National Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, has a collection of poems out called "How To Be Drawn." Here's Tess with a review. TESS TAYLOR, BYLINE: The title of Terrance ...

In this easy to follow fully narrated step by step tutorial I will show you guys how I draw shadows and light a full figure. You will learn how to shade the entire figure by breaking them down into ...

In “How to Draw a Perfect Circle,” Hayes distracts himself with blind contour drawing—tracing, without looking at his paper, “the spheres of the model’s body, her head, / Her mouth, the chin.” ...

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Scenes are drawn with razor sharp lines: NWA plays idly “at a penthouse party with no black people”; the ghosts of lynched slaves are invoked to haunt a “white man/ with Confederate pins.” ...

A self-portrait by the American poet Terrance Hayes graces the cover of “How to Be Drawn” (Penguin), Hayes’s fifth book of poems. If you want to be drawn, one straightforward plan would be ...