Posted on May 10, 2002

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.