The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton: 1965-2010 (BOA Editions Ltd, 2012).The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink(Bloomsbury, 2012).Most Way Home (William Morrow and Company, 1995).Dear Darkness: Poems (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (Bloomsbury, 2010).Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels(Knofp 2011).Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016).Return to Top of Pageīibliography ( - housed in Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection) In the spring of 2017 Kevin was announced as the new poetry editor for The New Yorker. Currently he is Atticus Haygood Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Emory University, and Curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Young has taught at the University of Georgia and Indiana University, where he was the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry. He is a former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, a recent Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and NEA Literature Fellow in Poetry. Young's first collection, Most Way Home, was selected by Lucille Clifton for the National Poetry Series, and later won Ploughshares’s John C. He began writing poetry in his teens, when he took a creative writing class. in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University. He moved several times as a kid, then lived in Topeka, Kansas, until he went to college. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1970. The poetry editor of The New Yorker, Young is the editor of nine other volumes, most recently the acclaimed anthology African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. Young is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, including Brown Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015, long-listed for the National Book Award Book of Hours, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Jelly Roll: a blues, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry Bunk, a New York Times Notable Book, long-listed for the National Book Award and named on many “best of” lists for 2017 and The Grey Album, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He previously served as the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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