![]() ![]() Three of Young’s books form what he calls “an American trilogy”: To Repel Ghosts (2001), which explores the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat Jelly Roll (2003), a collection of blues poems and Black Maria (2005), a film noir. He is the author of many books of poetry, including Brown (2018), Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995–2015, and Book of Hours (2014). He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and later earned an MFA from Brown University. He studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University and, while a student there, became a member of the Dark Room Collective, a community of African American writers. Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. ![]()
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