Poet Kevin Young reads from his works.
His first book, Most Way Home, was selected for the National Poetry Series in 1995. His second, To Repel Ghosts, is a “double-album set” devoted to the life and works of painter Jean Michael Basquiat.
Young studied at Harvard and held a Wallace Stenger Fellowship at Stanford. Since then, he has taught at the University of Georgia and Indiana University. He is a fellow in the DuBois Institute at Harvard.