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<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:1rem"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kevin Young</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> is the Director of the<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nypl.org_locations_schomburg&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=D5P3LWze4r3oiRKAOA_yk2Y_FAtjJ82UYMYydl3S66E&m=sqhf_-5SL34N_syE0VTQoSMDkcjb0D5arf2gZrmvQys&s=He0cNDHHZQMXfv6NnuBJtriwxDxulyAeiJLXX5o-EYg&e=" target="_blank"> Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, </a>newly named a National Historic Landmark. He is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, most recently <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015</span></cite> (Knopf,
2016), longlisted for the National Book Award; <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Book of Hours</span></cite> (Knopf, 2014), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy
of American Poets; <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels</span></cite> (Knopf, 2011), winner of an American Book Award; and <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear Darkness</span></cite> (Knopf,
2008). His collection <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jelly Roll: a blues</span></cite> (Knopf, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Los Angeles Times</span></cite> Book
Prize.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:1rem"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Young's nonfiction book, <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__kevinyoungpoetry.com_bunk-2Dthe-2Drise-2Dof-2Dhoaxes-2Dhumbug-2Dplagiarists-2Dphonies-2Dpost-2Dfacts-2Dand-2Dfake-2Dnews.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=D5P3LWze4r3oiRKAOA_yk2Y_FAtjJ82UYMYydl3S66E&m=sqhf_-5SL34N_syE0VTQoSMDkcjb0D5arf2gZrmvQys&s=24OgvmsMCx9vim5UeiWsVn5VaSEWI6DT0arWiuet1Rw&e=" target="_blank">Bunk:
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News</a> </span></cite>(Graywolf Press, November 14, 2017), is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, was longlisted for the National Book
Award, and named a <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New York Times</span></cite> Notable Book, a <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New York Times Book Review</span></cite> "Editors' Choice" selection, and a "Best Book of
2017" by NPR, the <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Los Angeles Times</span></cite>, <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dallas Morning News</span></cite>, <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Atlanta Journal-</span></cite></span><cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">C<span style="color:black">onstitution,</span></span></cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Smithsonian</span></cite>, <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Vogue,
the Atlantic,</span></cite> <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nylon</span></cite>,<cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BuzzFeed</span></cite>, and <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Electric Literature.</span></cite> Young's
previous nonfiction book, <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness</span></cite>(Graywolf Press, 2012), won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award; it was also a <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New
York Times</span></cite> Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the editor of eight other collections, most recently <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Collected Poems of
Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010</span></cite> (BOA Editions, 2012) and <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink</span></cite> (Bloomsbury, 2012). Named University Distinguished Professor at Emory University, Young
was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:1rem"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As of November 2017, Young is Poetry Editor of the <cite><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New Yorker.</span></cite></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Poetry at Beinecke Library:
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