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Kevin Young

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Born: November 07 1970

Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University , and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the author of Most Way Home, To Repel Ghosts, Jelly Roll, Black Maria, For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; Blues Poems; Jazz Poems and John Berryman's Selected Poems.

His Black Cat Blues, originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, was included in The Best American Poetry 2005. Young's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other literary magazines. In 2007, he served as guest editor for an issue of Ploughshares. He has written on art and artists for museums in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

His 2003 book of poems Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award.

After stints at the University of Georgia and Indiana University, Young now teaches writing at Emory University, where he is the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing, as well as the curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a large collection of first and rare editions of poetry in English.

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Kevin Young

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Books from Kevin Young

Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

The Body's Question

Jelly Roll

The Best American Poetry 2011

Dear Darkness

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink

The Best American Poetry 2021

Jazz Poems

The Grey Album: Music, Shadows, Lies

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (American Poets Continuum Book 134)

"The Palace"

Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery and Abolition

Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance

Kenyon Review, Nov/Dec 2017

PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies

Kenyon Review, Mar/Apr 2021: Volume 43, Number 2

The Kenyon Review Spring 2011

Ploughshares Spring 2004 Guest-Edited by Campbell McGrath

Ploughshares Spring 2006 Guest-Edited by Kevin Young