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Video lit: National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for poetry Nov. 17 for his collection ‘Lighthead.’ In this 2009 video, produced by the Pittsburgh-based Pop City Media, the Carnegie Mellon professor explains why poetry, why Pittsburgh, and reads some of his poetry with jazz accompaniment.

For more of Hayes’ poetry, there is this 48-minute video of him reading at Cornell University.

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-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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