Kevin Young (poet)
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Kevin Young (November 8, 1970— ) is an American poet, heavily influenced by the work of Langston Hughes. Young was educated at Brown and Harvard Universities, and while in Boston, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective.
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young is the author of Most Way Home, To Repel Ghosts, Jelly Roll, Black Maria and editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers; Blues Poems and John Berryman's Selected Poems.
His "Black Cat Blues", originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, was included in The Best American Poetry 2005.
Kevin now teaches writing at Emory University, where he is the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing.
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