Terrance Hayes
American poet
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origin of “golden shovel”
- In golden shovel
…was invented by American poet Terrance Hayes for his poem “The Golden Shovel” (2010), which pays homage to Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” (1959). Hayes’s invention inspired many poets to write their own version of a golden shovel. The form has become a popular
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