The Joshua Ringel Memorial Poetry Reading: Terrance Hayes

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This year, Terrance Hayes, author of seven poetry collections that have led to fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, will give the Joshua Ringel Memorial Poetry Reading. Hayes's publications include So to Speak, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, and Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry.

The Joshua Ringel Memorial Poetry Reading honors Center for Talented Youth alumnus and avid poetry lover Joshua Ringel and his parents, Mel and Barbara. The event supports the arts in Baltimore by bringing a distinguished poet to the city each year for a free public poetry reading. Ringel's teacher, the renowned poet Kenneth Koch, gave the inaugural Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading in 1998. Since then, many other distinguished poets have lent their voices to this remarkable series.