KEVIN YOUNG at ULL this Saturday

The Deep South Festival of Writers presents Kevin Young.

Saturday, September 19 at 7:30pm

at The Acadiana Center for Film and Media
700 Lee Ave
Lafayette, LA 70501

Kevin Young's books of poetry include For the Confederate Dead (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), Black Maria (2005), Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003), To Repel Ghosts (2001) - a finalist for the James Laughlin Award - and Most Way Home (1995), selected for the National Poetry Series and winner of the Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Young is also the editor of the anthologies Blues Poems (Everymans Library, 2003) and Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), as well as a selected volume of poems by John Berryman for the Library of America. His poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Callaloo.

Marthe Reed
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Marthe Reed
English Department
UL Lafayette
337-482-5503
mreed@louisiana.edu