A Notebook on the work of Kevin Young

Kevin Young's focus on black history, music, humor, and grief in his works have made him an important subject for our interests in African American studies and artistic thought. He has also produced an expansive body of work that 

Young is one of our most accomplished contemporary poets. His volumes of poetry include Most Way Home: Poems (1995), To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor (2001) Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003), Black Maria: Poems (2005), For the Confederate Dead (2007), Dear Darkness: Poems (2008), and Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011). He edited Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Blues Poems (2003), John Berryman: Select Poems (2004), Jazz Poems (2006), and The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (2010).

2013
• March 9: ARCs: Works by Kevin Young, Tyehimba Jess & Adrian Matejka  
• January 30: Kevin Young's Extraordinary Body of Work 
• January 30: Visual Chronicle 
• January 12: Beyond Poetry: Amiri Baraka and Kevin Young
• January 10: Kevin Young's presence in the New York Times in 2012
 
2012
• November 17: Kevin Young & ampersands 
• October 2: Natasha Trethewey, Kevin Young, Jericho Brown, and the Emory model  
• July 10: Kevin Young's Big Books & Extraordinary Publishing Career
• July 5: Funny poets: Amiri Baraka & Kevin Young 
• March 31: A Subtle Trayvon Martin Reference in Kevin Young's Poem?
• March 28: Kevin Young's Second-Person James Covey Poems
• February 12: Kevin Young: The Poet as Creativity Machine 

2011
• December 20: The Case for Kevin Young's Ardency
• December 19: African American Poetry on 2011 Best of Lists 
• November 17: Notes on Memorable Lines from Kevin Young's "Bereavement" 
• June 26: 5 Reasons Kevin Young's Ardency Matters 
• May 20: Four Contemporary Black Male Writers & Their Fathers 
• May 7: Kevin Young & the Langston Hughes Connection 
• April 2: 10 Poems by Kevin Young
• March 7: Cinque and Processional
• February 7: Multi-threaded Comments on Kevin Young’s Ardency 
• February 7: Kevin Young’s Expansive Body of Work
• February 7: Brief Background on the Amistad Case
• February 7: The Coverage of Young’s Book
• February 7: The Design and Structure of Ardency
• February 7: The Title Page
• January 24: Books by K. Warren, E. Shockley, & K. Young 

2010
• July 5: Kevin Young's "Bereavement"

2009
• October 4: The Promise of Kevin Young
• February 6: Poetry and the Economy

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