![]() His new children’s book is Emile and the Field (RHCB/Make Me a World, March 15, 2022), illustrated by Chioma Ebinama. His newest book of poetry, Stones, was one of Library Journal’s Top Ten poetry titles of 2021, and was shortlisted for the T.S. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 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 Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award and Book of Hours (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. He was previously the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. ![]() ![]() Kevin Young is the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and poetry editor of The New Yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast. Kirkwood Avenue in Bloomington, or online at. Tickets are available at the BCT Box Office, at 114 E. ![]() This event is free but tickets are required. This event is presented in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study, and part of a series of events with Kevin Young in October. This fall, poet and author Kevin Young will give a reading at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. ![]()
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