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Kevin Young (born November 8, 1970)[1] [2] is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others,[3] Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library . A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his 2003 collection Jelly Roll: A Blues , Young was Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library . In March 2017, Young was named poetry editor of The New Yorker .
Early life [ edit ]
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska , Young was the only child of two working parents, his father, Dr. Paul E. Young, was an ophthalmologist and his mother, Dr. Azzie Young, a chemist .[4] [5] Due to the careers of both of his parents, his family moved frequently throughout his youth. Young lived in six different places before he reached the age of ten,[4] but his family ultimately settled in Topeka, Kansas . He first began to pursue writing when he was thirteen years old, after he attended a summer writing class at Washburn University .[6]
Young attended Harvard College , where he studied with Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido [4] and became friends with writer Colson Whitehead .[7] He graduated in 1992, then held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University (1992–94), where he worked with Denise Levertov . He received his Master of Fine Arts from Brown University , where Michael S. Harper served as a significant influence.[8]
While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group the Dark Room Collective .[4] He is heavily influenced by the poets Langston Hughes , John Berryman , and Emily Dickinson and by the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat .
Young wrote much of his debut collection, Most Way Home, while still an undergraduate.[9] Published by William Morrow in 1995,[7] Most Way Home was selected by Lucille Clifton for the National Poetry Series and won Ploughshares ' John C. Zacharis First Book Award.[8] Writing in Ploughshares , Rob Arnold observes that in that first book Young "explores his own family's narratives, showing an uncanny awareness of voice and persona."[9]
Young has described his next three books – To Repel Ghosts (named for a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting), Jelly Roll (a collection of love poems named for Jelly Roll Morton ), and Black Maria – as an "American trilogy", calling the series Devil's Music. [9]
Young's collection The Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014)[10] won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize .
Young is also the author of For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness , Blues Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995–2015 (2016)[11] and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Blues Poems (2003), Jazz Poems (2006), and John Berryman's Selected Poems (2004).[9]
His poem "Black Cat Blues," originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review , was included in The Best American Poetry 2005 . Young's poetry has also 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 .[9] 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 . Young was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2003, as well as an NEA Literature Fellow in Poetry.[12]
After stints at the University of Georgia and Indiana University , Young taught writing at Emory University , where he was 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.[13] [14]
In September 2016,[3] Young became the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library .[15]
In March 2017, he was named poetry editor of The New Yorker ,[4] to begin in November 2017.[3]
Young is working on two books: a non-fiction book called Bunk on the U.S. history of lies and hoaxes, and a poetry collection that he has described as being "about African American history and also personal history, growing up in Kansas, which has a long black history including Langston Hughes and others."[3]
In September 2020, he was named director of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture , to begin in January 2021.[2] Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Letters , and the Society of American Historians ,Young was also named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.[16]
Personal life [ edit ]
Young lives in New York.[3] He married Kate Tuttle, book columnist at The Boston Globe [17] in 2005.[5]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Collections
Young, Kevin (1995). Most Way Home . New York, NY: William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-6881-4032-8 . OCLC 30544468 .
Young, Kevin (2001). To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor . Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books. ISBN 978-1-5819-5033-5 . OCLC 45466205 .
Young, Kevin (2003). Jelly Roll: A Blues . New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3754-1460-2 . OCLC 49737128 .
Young, Kevin (2005). To Repel Ghosts: Remixed from the Original Masters . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3757-1023-0 . OCLC 57722526 .
Young, Kevin (produced and directed by) (2005). Black Maria: Being the Adventures of Delilah Redbone & A.K.A. Jones: Poems . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-1-4000-4209-8 . OCLC 55511276 .
Young, Kevin (2007). For the Confederate Dead: Poems . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3072-6435-0 . OCLC 69734632 .
Young, Kevin (2008). Dear Darkness: Poems . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3072-6434-3 . OCLC 196315701 .
Young, Kevin (2011). Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3072-6764-1 . OCLC 635461180 .
Young, Kevin (2014). Book of Hours: Poems . Alfred A. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-3072-7224-9 . OCLC 844789963 .
Young, Kevin (2016). Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3853-5150-8 . OCLC 908838408 .
Young, Kevin (2018). Brown: Poems . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-1-5247-3255-4 . OCLC 992437731 .
Young, Kevin (2021). Stones . London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 1-78733-375-2 . OCLC 1246285491 .
Anthologies (edited)
Young, Kevin, ed. (2003). Blues Poems . New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets). ISBN 978-0-3754-1458-9 . OCLC 52312415 .
Berryman, John (2004). Young, Kevin (ed.). John Berryman: Selected Poems . New York, NY: Library of America. ISBN 978-1-9310-8269-3 . OCLC 493664682 .
Young, Kevin, ed. (2006). Jazz Poems . London: Alfred A. Knopf (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets). ISBN 978-1-8415-9754-6 . OCLC 988704157 .
Young, Kevin, ed. (2010). The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing . New York, NY: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-6204-0484-3 . OCLC 852253772 .
Young, Kevin, ed. (2012). The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink . New York, NY: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-6081-9551-0 . OCLC 778422545 .
Clifton, Lucille; Morrison, Toni (foreword by) (2012). Young, Kevin; Glaser, Michael S. (eds.). The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 . ISBN 978-1-9426-8300-1 . OCLC 912319753 .
List of poems
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Money Road
2016
Young, Kevin (22 February 2016). "Money Road" . The New Yorker . 92 (2 ): 54.
Non-fiction [ edit ]
Theses and dissertations [ edit ]
Young, Kevin (1992). Most Way Home (Thesis/dissertation). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. OCLC 26555488 .
References [ edit ]
^ a b Bowley, Graham (30 September 2020). "Kevin Young, Poet and Author, Is Named to Lead African American Museum" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2020 .
^ a b c d e Peet, Lisa (21 March 2017). "Kevin Young: Director of NYPL's Schomburg Center, New Yorker Poetry Editor" . Library Journal . Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2017 .
^ a b c d e Oliviero, Helena (15 March 2017). "Kevin Young is named new poetry editor at The New Yorker" . Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Archived from the original on 10 February 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2017 .
^ a b "Kate Tuttle and Kevin Young" . The New York Times . 8 May 2005. ISSN 0362-4331 . Archived from the original on 21 December 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2017 .
^ Gioia, Dana (2004). Twentieth-Century American Poetry . Boston: McGraw-Hill. pp. 1041–1042 . ISBN 0-07-240019-6 .
^ a b Purcell, Andrew (20 May 2017). "Colson Whitehead: 'The truth of things, not the facts' " . Western Advocate . Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017 .
^ a b Lee, Don (Winter 1996–1997). "Kevin Young, Zacharis Award" . Ploughshares (71 ). Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017 .
^ a b c d e f Arnold, Rob (Spring 2006). "About Kevin Young" . Ploughshares (99 ). Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017 .
^ a b Matthews, James. "A Q&A with Kevin Young" . Arkansas Times . Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017 .
^ "PW's Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2016" . Publishers Weekly . Archived from the original on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017 .
^ "University Honors & Awards: Honoree - Kevin Young" Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine , Indiana University.
^ Poetry Foundation (25 May 2019). "Kevin Young" . Poetry Foundation . Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2019 .
^ "Kevin Young On Blues, Poetry And 'Laughing To Keep From Crying' " . Fresh Air . NPR. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017 .
^ Kelly, William P. (1 August 2016). "Introducing the New Director of the Schomburg Center, Kevin Young" . NYPL blog . Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016 .
^ Young, Kevin. "Kevin Young: Extended Biography" . www.kevinyoungpoetry.com . Retrieved 1 February 2022 .
^ Redmon, Jeremy (13 February 2016). "Broad range of music fuels Decatur poet Kevin Young's new collection" . Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Archived from the original on 29 March 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017 .
^ "Kevin Young" . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2003. Archived from the original on 1 May 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018 .
^ "United States Artists Official Website" . Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 26 May 2019 .
^ Tobar, Hector (14 January 2013). "National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for awards" . Los Angeles Times . ISSN 0458-3035 . Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2017 .
^ Carolyn Kellogg (14 August 2013). "Jacket Copy: PEN announces winners of its 2013 awards" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013 .
^ https://englishcomplit.unc.edu/previous-winners-of-thomas-wolfe-prize-and-lecture/ .
^ "Georgia Writers Hall of Fame" . georgiawritershalloffame.org . Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020 .
^ "T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced" . Books+Publishing . 15 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021 .
^ Rosenberg, John S. (29 February 2024). "Kevin Young Named 2024 Harvard Arts Medalist" . Harvard Magazine . Retrieved 29 February 2024 .
^ Schneier, Matthew (7 November 2017). "In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018 .
^ Dirda, Michael (29 November 2017). "Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes" . The Washington Post . Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018 .
^ Quinn, Annalisa (18 November 2017). " 'Bunk' Is Encyclopedic, Fascinating — And Frustrating" . NPR . Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018 .
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