2010 Presenters
Kevin Young
The author of six books of poems, Kevin Young's work has been frequently featured on National Public Radio and in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and other journals and anthologies, including the Best American Poetry collections in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Young's latest book, The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing, is an anthology of contemporary elegies. It has been chosen as one of the IndieNext top ten poetry books for 2010.
Young has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. In December 2009, he was named the United States Artists James Baldwin Fellow.
He is currently Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and Curator of Literary Collections at the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University.
LINKS:
Powell's Books interviews Young
An Interview with Kevin Young: On Point Radio with Tom Ashbrook
Young interviews on NPR about The Art of Losing (scroll down the page)
