Kevin Young by Devon Altman https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c en-us 2019-05-10 14:25:44 UTC 2023-02-24 08:17:48 UTC hello@padlet.com All About Kevin Young 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/359231227 Poet Kevin Young was born on November 8, 1970 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He attended Harvard University and studied with renowned writers Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido during his college career. He then received his Masters of Fine Arts from Brown University. Stanford University also awarded Young with the Stegner Fellowship. Some of Young’s famous poetry collections include Brown (2018), Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 (2016), Book of Hours (2014), Dear Darkness: Poems (2008) among others. The Academy of American Poets awarded Young with the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his poetry collection Book of Hours in 2015 while also being a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Young’s poetry collection Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003) was also a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Kevin Young “served as the Curator of the  Raymond Danowski Poetry Library” at Emory University in Atlanta. (Kevin Young Poetry) He has also taught poetry as well as writing at many universities such as University of Georgia, Emory University and Indiana University. While at Emory University, he received the award of University Distinguished Professor. In addition to being a poet, Young is also an essayist, editor and professor. He is also the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Young’s famous only non fiction book entitled Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarist, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News was in consideration for the National Book Award. In 2016, Young was also inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently, Young resides in New Jersey as he is the poetry editor for the New Yorker magazine. Young also leads the New Yorker Poetry Podcast which features guests speakers and discussions on poetry and other readings.]]> 2019-05-12 17:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/359231227 Ode to Gumbo Reading by Kevin Young 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360102544 2019-05-14 20:47:39 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360102544 Interview With Kevin Young 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360102698 Black America - From Poetry to Art]]> 2019-05-14 20:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360102698 12 Leaders Who Are Shaping the Next Generation of Artists 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360429162 2019-05-15 16:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360429162 In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360429717 2019-05-15 16:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360429717 ODE TO THE MIDWEST 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360430543 2019-05-15 16:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360430543 THE MISSION 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360430630 2019-05-15 16:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360430630 AUNTIES 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360430741 2019-05-15 16:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360430741 Can Kevin Young Make Poetry Matter Again? 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360491490 2019-05-15 18:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360491490 Kaveh Akbar Reads Ellen Bryant Voight with Kevin Young 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360492410 2019-05-15 18:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360492410 Bibliography 347010 https://padlet.com/347010/yzfsxtwtjj5c/wish/360759997 Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/kevin-young.
"Kevin Young." The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young. Accessed 16 May 2019.
"Kevin Young." Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kevin-young. Accessed 16 May 2019.
"Kevin Young Extended Bibliography." Kevin Young Poetry, kevinyoungpoetry.com/extended-biography.html. Accessed 16 May 2019.

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