Dean Young (poet)

Dean Young
at the 2013 National Bookfest
Born	1955 (1955) Columbia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	August 23, 2022 (aged 67) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Education	Indiana University, Bloomington (MFA)
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize finalist

Dean Young (1955 – August 23, 2022) was an American contemporary poet in the lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets.