Poetry star …

… Galaxies Inside His Head - NYTimes.com. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Hayes has read at Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress and edited the annual Best American Poetry, whose previous volumes included his work seven times. He won a National Book Award in 2010 for the collection “Lighthead” and, last year, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. In 2014, People magazine named Hayes among its candidates for Sexiest Man Alive. (“I didn’t think anyone would see it,” he told me, with characteristic understatedness.) The poet Shara McCallum, a friend of Hayes’s, said, “ ‘Famous poet’ seems like an oxymoron, but Terrance seems to deliver something for a lot of people.” When she saw him at a crowded writer’s convention two years ago, she said, “it was like groupies with Mick Jagger.”