Kevin Young
Kevin Young is Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker . He has previously served as curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University and director the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Young is the author of many books, including Brown , Bunk , Blue Laws , and Jelly Roll . Among the anthologies he has edited are Blues Poems , Jazz Poems , The Art of...See more
Kevin Young is Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker . He has previously served as curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University and director the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Young is the author of many books, including Brown , Bunk , Blue Laws , and Jelly Roll . Among the anthologies he has edited are Blues Poems , Jazz Poems , The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing , and, for Library of America, John Berryman: Selected Poems . See less
