Kevin Young

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November 08, 1970 in Lincoln, Nebraska, The United States

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Poetry

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Langston Hughes, Jean Michel Basquiat

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Kevin Young is an American poet heavily influenced by the poet Langston Hughes and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University (1992-1994), and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the author of Most Way Home, To Repel Ghosts, Jelly Roll, Black Maria, For The Confederate Dead, Dear Darkness, and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; Blues Poems; Jazz Poems and John Berryman's Selected Poems.

His Black Cat Blues, originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, was included in The Be...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 968 ratings · 138 reviews · 36 distinct works

	Jelly Roll: A Blues 3.99 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing 4.11 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dear Darkness: Poems 4.15 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Black Maria: Poems Produced and Directed by 3.70 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Poetry 2011 by Kevin Young (Editor), David Lehman (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	For the Confederate Dead 3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Most Way Home 3.90 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	To Repel Ghosts: The Remix 3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Blues Poems 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Daylight Savings"

Like the money the light
doesn't go

as far these days”
― Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

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“How I would sing

like a kettle to keep you”
― Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

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“holding tight / to their pocketbooks / at the pearly gates / just in case.”
― Kevin Young

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