The Blaney Lecture

Academy of American Poets Chancellor Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin and recipient of the 2010 National Book Award for Lighthead, delivers the 2019 Blaney Lecture, made possible by a generous gift from the estate of Dr. Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney.

Copresented by the Academy of American Poets and NYU Creative Writing Program. Free and open to the public.