Acclaimed poet, editor Kevin Young illuminates Black culture
A National Book Award finalist, Guggenheim fellowship recipient, and PEN Open Award winner, poet Kevin Young is a groundbreaking voice of his generation. The poetry editor and poetry podcast host for The New Yorker comes to the Moss Arts Center on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m.
Young will read his poetry, share personal insights into the state of poetry and creative thought, and take audience questions. “An Evening with Kevin Young” will be held in the center’s Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, located within the Street and Davis Performance Hall at 190 Alumni Mall.
Young is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose, most recently “Brown,” as featured on the “Daily Show with Trevor Noah;” “Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015,” longlisted for the National Book Award; and “Book of Hours,” a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets.
His collection, “Jelly Roll: a blues,” was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His newest book of poetry, “Stones,” was one of Library Journal’s top 10 poetry titles of 2021 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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