Kevin Young

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Gender	Male
Age	54
Web site	kevinyoungpoetry.com
Date of birth	November 8,1970
Zodiac sign	Scorpio
Born	Lincoln
	Nebraska
	United States
Nationality	American
Spouse	Kate Tuttle
Job	Teacher
	Poet
Education	Brown University
	Harvard College
	The University of Southern Mississippi
	Kansas City Kansas Community College
	University of Kansas
	Loyola Marymount University
	University of California, Los Angeles
	Jordan High School
Movies/Shows	Compound 147
	The Best and the Loneliest Days
Awards	American Book Award
	PEN/Open Book
	John C. Zacharis First Book Award
	Quill Award for Poetry
	Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
	National Poetry Series
Official site	kevinyoungpoetry.com
Alma mater	Harvard College
Genres	Poetry
	Literary Criticism
Home run	144
Height	203 (cm)
Nba draft	2013
Weight	86 (kg)
2021present	Mets de Guaynabo
Play career	2013–present
Olympic medal	Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
Sport	Track
Colleg team	UCLA
Notabl award	National Book Award
Date of Reg.	2019-03-09 22:58:33
Date of Upd.	2023-08-27 06:55:06
ID	559893

The Grey Album
Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
Jelly Roll
Most Way Home
For the Confederate Dead
To Repel Ghosts: Remixed from the Original Masters
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
Black Maria
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Brown: Poems
Blues Poems
Dear Darkness: Poems
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Book of Hours: Poems
Jazz Poems
Selected Poems
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most
Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
Diary of A. . . Madman? One (Mad)mans Philosophical Perspective on Life
Sport, Violence and Society: Second Edition
Seeing Crosses
Sixty-Three Days: The Story of the Warsaw Rising
Riding the Edge
Book of Hours

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Kevin Young is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.