Durst Distinguished Lecture Series-Kevin Young

Kevin Young is the poetry editor at The New Yorker and the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He has published ten books of poetry, including Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 (2016), longlisted for the National Book Award; and, most recently, Brown (2018).​

 

This lecture is made possible by the Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature Endowment.