Kevin Young | |
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| Born | Kevin Young November 8, 1970 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Harvard College (AB); Brown University (MFA) |
| Genre | Poetry, literary criticism |
| Subject | Blues |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship; finalist, National Book Award |
| Spouse | Kate Tuttle |
| Website | |
| kevinyoungpoetry | |
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.
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