February 7, 7 pm (CalArts)
February 8, 8:30 pm (REDCAT)
Kevin Young is the new Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, newly named a National Historic Landmark. He is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently
Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award;
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;
Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011); and
Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008). His collection
Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Young's newest nonfiction book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, was published Fall 2017. Young's nonfiction book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (Graywolf Press, 2012) won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award; it was also a New York Times Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is the editor of eight other collections, most recently The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010 (BOA Editions, 2012) and The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (Bloomsbury, 2012). Young was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Young will have two public readings:
February 7, 7 pm
Generator Building, CalArts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
February 8, 8:30 pm
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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