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Major Works by Shawn Callaway Hays:
•Temperamental Axiologies: How Our Values Segregate Us
•Song of the Answerer (therapeutic poetry cycle)
•"Within the Parable": A Defense of the Structure of Religious Beliefs
•Song of Myself (epic poetry cycle)
•Crossing Back Westward: Redemptive Addresses in Verse
•Great Are the Myths (poetry cycle - personas)
•Grass That Leaves Greener: New Eschatons and Egresses
•Closer (than you think), stage play
•aurochs maladaptive: new enamels and cameos, poetry (2019-2023)
•What Light Was, dialogue novel
International Gold Winner of the Readers’ Choice Book Awards (What Light Was), Prolific Tennessean author Shawn Callaway Hays materializes his passion to assist his communities as a life safety educator and as an officer in emergency and rescue services. He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion from the University of Tennessee. Shawn Callaway Hays lives in the Ooltewah suburb of Chattanooga with his wife, Laura, and two children, Ivy and Callaway. Follow Shawn Callaway Hays and his similar works at SpeakLowPoetry.
In "Grass That Leaves Greener," Hays’s poetry is a praise to the process of dialectical progress, exploring the escapisms—the “eschatons and egresses”—of the human condition through his narratively developmental themes of existentialism, mythology, theology, hermeneutics, epic poetry, and other literary allusions. In his next cycle of poems, "aurochs maladaptive," Hays posits his personas as ebullient beasts painted on mythological caves, as “aurochs” overpowered (maladaptive), suffering brutal, chaotic, mysterious forces—some to annihilation and some to surprising escape. Alongside, Hays surprises as he delivers his spoken word, rap, and jazz lyrics. With his subsequent stage play and dialogue novel, "Closer (than you think)" and "What Light Was," Hays shifts his writing endeavors and dry humor to enticing historical fiction.
“We must realize our reservoirs of creativity beyond overcoming our heartaches and trials. As our urgent motivation, it is imperative that we engage our creative capacities through our vital working "mythos" that we need to be most real. As a metaphysic, as an aesthetic, poetry is creative engagement with the world that provides meaning, value, and significance to what most matters. We can be creative enough—‘poet enough’—to integrate solutions that mitigate our challenges; compelling our creativities, we can quell our existential nausea, dispel our ennui, and silence our angst. Nurtured creativity can overflood our drives for mere survival. Creativity allows us to discover resurrection. In command of creativity, we can be life-giving, we can give all we’ve been given to give—our love—to the people we’ve been given to treasure.”
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