Kevin Young

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Distinguished Poet National Book Award Finalist

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$20,000 - $30,000

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Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture recently named a National Historic Landmark and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker.

He is the writer of thirteen books of verse and exposition most as of late Brown (2018); Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf 2016) longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf 2014) a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and victor of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets.

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