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Kevin Young

Kevin Young is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, including, most recently, Stones, a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize. The Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Poetry Editor of The New Yorker, he is working on a book about death, sex, and censorship between and after World Wars I and II. (December 2021)

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