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An Evening With Kevin Young
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Kevin Young
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost:
General Admission: $25.00 Students with ID and Youth 18 and Under: $10.00

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents "An Evening With Kevin Young" on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.

Kevin Young will read his poetry, share personal insights into the state of poetry and creative thought, and take audience questions.

A groundbreaking voice of his generation, poet Kevin Young is the poetry editor of the New Yorker, where he hosts the poetry podcast. He was previously the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. A National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim fellowship recipient, he also won the PEN Open Award, whose judge remarked that Young shows us "how Black identity is indispensable to American culture".

Young is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown (Knopf, 2018), as featured on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. His collection, Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf, 2003), was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His newest book of poetry, Stones, was one of Library Journal's top 10 poetry titles of 2021 and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His new children's book is titled Emile and the Field (RHCB/Make Me a World, 2022).

Links:

• https://kevinyoungpoetry.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/kevinyoungpoetry
• https://www.instagram.com/thehungryear/

General admission tickets are $25.00 and tickets for youth ages 18 & under and Virginia Tech student tickets are $10.00 each.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=0B6C5705-6E9C-4D57-92DF-E277B451CEAD.

Recommended for ages 14 and up.

This is Young's the first performance at the Moss Arts Center.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/kevin-young.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/ or call 540-231-5300.