![]() ![]() Kevin Young’s “Crowning” celebrates the birth of his son. Together, these five poets represent the various and powerful ways poetry can speak to the experiences that bind us-not only culturally but privately, and in the most personal of moments. He’ll join poets Patricia Smith and Marilyn Chin, whose work we’ve recently featured on this blog, as well as Brenda Shaughnessy and Brian Turner. This Wednesday at 4:00 PM, Kevin Young will join a group of five poets in a reading to celebrate Natasha Trethewey’s year as Poet Laureate. ![]() Young is the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing & English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta. ![]() The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (Graywolf, 2012) won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and was a New York Times Notable book of the year as well sa a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is also the editor of eight other collections, most recently The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink and The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (with Michael S. Kevin Young is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011), which won an American Book Award, and Book of Hours (forthcoming in 2014). ![]()
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