He was elected a chancellor of the academy of american poets in 2020. Kevin young, author info, published books, bio, photo. Kevin young, the author of the national book award finalist jelly roll. Nov 07, 2017 kevin young, the poetry editor of the new yorker, tracks the progression of bunk through the ages. Kevin succeeds khalil gibran muhammad, who led the schomburg with great distinction for the last five years. The prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in. March 12, 2014 the book of hours, kevin youngs eighth collection, tracks the emotional extremes of a fathers death and a sons birth. Young born in september 16, 1966 is a former american athlete. In an age of fake news, a historian of the hoax the new. Kevin young is a master poet who has offered us a transformative curation of life, death and the ways in which we deal with it all in book of hours. Monday, april 7 at the carter presidential library and museum theater, 441 freedom parkway, atlanta. Kevin lowell young is an american poet and teacher of poetry. Mar 07, 2014 book of hours, kevin young s heartfelt, beautifully crafted new collection of poems, is a chronicle of a series of seismic changes in his life. Mar 04, 2014 kevin young is a phenomenal poet, and this book winds deftly through the caverns of mourning, love, remembering, life, and loss.
Above, kevin young discusses how his fathers death and the birth of his son informed his new book of poetry, book of hours. In the final of this event he set a world record and olympic record of 46. Read all poems of kevin young and infos about kevin young. There he printed his first broadside, reward, which would become the first poem in his first book most way home. Kevin young, author of book of hours the poet describes his new book about the death of his father and the birth of his son as having a blues sensibility. He was awarded a stegner fellowship from stanford university and later earned an mfa from brown university. Kevin youngs enthralling, essential history of the hoax.
Youngs eighth poetry collection finds him at a personal place, chronicling his grief following the death of his father, his sense of wonder following the birth of his son, and the echoes that pass between one event and the other. A son mourns his father in kevin youngs book of hours. Kevin youngs poetry collections include brown alfred a. Kevin young s poetry collections include brown alfred a. He is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including blue laws. Kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours book of hours, kevin youngs eighth poetry collection, moves from the death of his father to the birth of his son. Kevin young will give a reading of book of hours at 7 p. Book of hours by kevin young penguin books australia.
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of the poets father, we witness the unfolding of grief. Poet kevin young debuts book of hours emory university. A blues, among many other works, is a poet of extraordinary dynamism and erudition, whose flair for intricate cultural. Apr 28, 2014 the sudden death of a parent and years of smoldering grief that follow, the breathless anticipation of the birth of a child and years of awkward wonder that followthese experiences are among the subjects of an attractive book of poems by an awardwinning poet. I lost my mother not too long ago, and the poems in this collection continual struck a chord within me. Ive read plenty of books about grief and about coming through grief in my life, but ive never before encountered a book that gets it as right as kevin youngs book of hours. Poems by kevin young knopf buy from indiebound buy from amazon. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including, most.
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. Waking early with the warming house my grandmother knew what to do. Monday, april 7 at the carter presidential library and museum theater, 441 freedom parkway, atlanta this a cappella books event, cosponsored by emorys department of. Kevin young is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including ardency. Nov 14, 2017 kevin young, the author of the national book award finalist jelly roll. Poet kevin young has won the 2015 lenore marshall poetry prize for his collection, book of hours.
Kevin young poems, quotations and biography on kevin young poet page. J oin us for the keynote event of stamfords big read, featuring kevin young, the author of book of hours. Kevin youngs book of hours emory university atlanta ga. He is the author of many books of poetry, including.
He studied under seamus heaney and lucie brockbroido at harvard university and, while a student there, became a member of the dark room collective, a community of african american writers. I am happy to report that kevin young will be joining nypl as director of the schomburg center for research in black culture. Awardwinning poet kevin youngs eighth volume, book of hours, marks the tenth anniversary of the death of youngs father. Kevin youngs poem negative initially appeared in his volume to repel ghosts. Its one of those rare reading experiences that i recognized, even as. It begins with the sudden death of his father, an ophthalmologist, as the result of a hunting accident and proceeds to the birth of the poets son. Aug 01, 2016 i am happy to report that kevin young will be joining nypl as director of the schomburg center for research in black culture. Book of hours is a beautiful book of both grief and birth from the awardwinning poet whose work thrills his audience with its immediate emotional impact and musical riffs kevin young is the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture, newly named a national historic. Kevin young is a phenomenal poet, and this book winds deftly through the caverns of mourning, love, remembering, life, and loss. Young is also the author of ardency and most recently book of hours the title of the.
These excerpts from book of hours provide only a small glimpse of why kevin young is a master of the compact verse and a master at making profound and in the poem wintering, he explains how mourning, ive learned, is just a moment, many, grief the long betrothal beyond. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, young has been a winner of a guggenheim fellowship as well as a finalist for the national book award for his collection jelly roll. Resource nationalism, revolution, and empire in bolivia 2017 traces the history of bolivian struggles over mineral and hydrocarbon resources, highlighting the complex legacies of bolivian resource nationalism and in the process reappraising the countrys 1952 revolution. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, including the forthcoming library of american african american poetry anthology featuring 250 years of black poets in the. Young, associate professor of political science, has been appointed associate director of the institute for social science research issr for the 201819 academic year. A chronicle of the amistad rebels, which won of a 2012 american book award. He replaces henry renski, associate professor of regional planning, who is completing a threeyear term. Kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours book of hours, kevin young s eighth poetry collection, moves from the death of his father to the birth of his son.
Kevin young, the poetry editor of the new yorker, tracks the progression of bunk through the ages. Kevin young official website books and anthologies by. Kevin young is the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture, recently named a national historic landmark, and poetry editor of the new yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast he is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently brown knopf, 2018, as featured on the daily show with trevor noah. In the read around, a weekly video feature, authors talk about the when, where and how behind their books. His research and teaching interests bridge criminology and sociology of sport, an interface revealing itself in studies of on and offfield violence, litigation, surveillance and civility. A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness t. The prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the united states in the previous calendar year. In kevin youngs new book, book of hours as well as in bicentennial, a new volume from dan chiasson, fatherhood is a cycle that both repeats and invents itself or, in chiassons. In kevin youngs new collection, book of hours, poems about the death of his father appear alongside poems about the birth of his son.
He will begin his tenure at the library in the late fall. Kevin young on his new collection, book of hours 90. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement, kevin young acknowledges, even celebrates, lifes passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son. His latest collection confronts themes of birth, death, and rebirth, moving between and beyond his lifes milestone events. Like i have come to know sorrows not noun but verb, something that, unlike living, by doing right you do less of. Join facebook to connect with kevin young and others you may know. If you read no other book of poetry this year, this should be the one. Kevin young is the new yorkers poetry editor and the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture. Kevin young is a successful property investor and founder of property club. Hive by kevin young poems academy of american poets.
Capturing the strange silence of bereavement not the storm but the calm that slays me, kevin young acknowledges, even celebrates, lifes passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son. Kevin young was born november 8th, 1970 in lincoln, nebraska. Many of these poems were written out of moments when his nerves were frayed and confidence shaken. Kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours. Ive read plenty of books about grief and about coming through grief in my life, but ive never before encountered a book that gets it as right as kevin young s book of hours. Kevin young is the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture, newly named a national historic landmark, and poetry editor of the new yorker. Knopf, 2014, winner of the 2015 lenore marshall poetry prize.
Like i have come to know sorrows not noun but verb, something that, unlike living. Book of hours is youngs eighth book of poems, and he is the editor of eight others, including ardency. Kevin young department of political science umass amherst. Visually buried and aurally silent, the parenthetical titles evoke what w. He is also the editor of eight other collections, most recently the hungry ear. Kevin young is the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture and poetry editor for the new yorker. Book of hours by kevin young and bicentennial by dan. The rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, postfacts, and fake news graywolf press, 2017 was. He was the winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1992 summer olympics. Kevin young talks about grief and the poems in book.
A chronicle of the amistad rebels, winner of a 2012 american book award, and jelly roll, a finalist for the national book award. Kevin young will appear at a printers row event march. A beautiful book of both grief and birth from the awardwinning poet whose work thrills his audience with its immediate. Kevin young, author of book of hours the poet describes his new book about the death of his father and the birth of his son as having a.
Multipleaward winning poet kevin young reads from his new book book of hours tonight at the carter presidential library and museum theater. Kevin young is the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture, recently named a national historic landmark, and poetry editor of the new yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast. Professor kevin youngs main research and teaching interests are in modern latin america. Introducing the new director of the schomburg center, kevin young. Apr 11, 2014 kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours book of hours, kevin youngs eighth poetry collection, moves from the death of his father to the birth of his son. Book of hours, kevin youngs heartfelt, beautifully crafted new collection of poems, is a chronicle of a series of seismic changes in his life. Kevin young acknowledges, even celebrates, lifes passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son. Kevin young department of sociology university of calgary. Young graduated from harvard college in 1992, was a stegner fellow at stanford university 19921994, and received his master of fine arts from brown university. In his eighth book of poems, book of hours, kevin young poignantly chronicles the daytoday unfolding of these events. Introducing the new director of the schomburg center. Kevin young wins marshall poetry prize for book of hours. Mar 31, 2014 in the read around, a weekly video feature, authors talk about the when, where and how behind their books.
706 1471 1464 317 806 728 827 887 1028 1357 852 1382 538 597 1079 1533 554 344 1212 255 494 932 1334 1018 393 786 686 946 1539 771 782 1242 776 20 1185 1414 205 838 96 671 909 19