Kevin Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, where he studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido. He went on to hold a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University from 1992 to 1994, and earned his Master of Fine Arts from Brown University. His literary career launched with his debut poetry collection, ‘Most Way Home,’ in 1995, which earned him the National Poetry Series and Ploughshares’ John C. Zacharis First Book Award.
In March 20...