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DESCRIPTION:The Fall 2025 Zalaznick Reading Series kicks off with a reading
  by Kevin Young\nThursday\, September 18\, 5pm\nRhodes-Rawling Auditorium\,
  Klarman Hall KG70\n\nKevin Young is the poetry editor of The New Yorker\, 
 where he hosts the poetry podcast\, and is widely regarded as one of the le
 ading poets of his generation. He was the director of the Schomburg Center 
 for Research in Black Culture from 2008 – 2016\, and served as Curator of t
 he Raymond Danowski Poetry Library—a 75\,000-volume collection of rare and 
 modern poetry housed at Emory University – from 2005 – 2016.\n\nHe is the a
 uthor of sixteen books of poetry and prose\, including Brown (Knopf\, 2018)
 \; Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf\, 2016)\, longl
 isted for the National Book Award\; Book of Hours (Knopf\, 2014)\, a finali
 st for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Pr
 ize for Poetry\; and Stones (Knopf\, 2021) a Library Journal Top Ten poetry
  titles of 2021\, and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His collection 
 Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf\, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Boo
 k Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His next book of poetry will 
 be Night Watch: Poems (Knopf\, September 2\, 2025).\n\nHis children’s book 
 Emile and the Field (RHCB/Make Me a World\, 2022) was illustrated by Chioma
  Ebinama and was one of the New York Times’ Best Children’s Books of 2022.\
 n\nYoung’s second nonfiction book\, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes\, Humbug\, Pla
 giarists\, Phonies\, Post-Facts\, and Fake News (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, w
 on the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction\, was a finalist for the Nat
 ional Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award\, was lon
 glisted for the National Book Award\, and was named a New York Times Notabl
 e Book\, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” selection\, and a “
 Best Book of 2017” by NPR\, the Los Angeles Times\, Dallas Morning News\, A
 tlanta Journal-Constitution\, Smithsonian\, Vogue\, Atlantic\, Nylon\, Buzz
 Feed\, and Electric Literature. Young’s previous nonfiction book\, The Grey
  Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (Graywolf Press\, 2012)\, won the Gra
 ywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Book Award\; it was also a Ne
 w York Times Notable Book for 2012 and a finalist for the 2013 National Boo
 k Critics Circle Award for criticism.\n\nYoung is the editor of ten other v
 olumes\, including The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton\, 1965- 2010 (BOA
  Editions\, 2012)\, The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (Bloomsbury\, 2
 012)\, and African American Poetry 1770–2020: 250 Years of Struggle & Song 
 (Library of America\, October 2020). He is series editor and wrote the intr
 oduction and forward for Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery 
 & Abolition. Most recently he was editor for A Century of Poetry in The New
  Yorker: 1925-2025 (Knopf\, February 4\, 2025).\n\nHe is a member of the Am
 erican Academy of Arts and Sciences and was named a Chancellor of the Acade
 my of American Poets in 2020. In 2021 he was voted into the American Academ
 y of Arts and Letters\, and elected as a Fellow of the Society of American 
 Historians. In 2024 he received the Harvard Arts Medal.\n\nReception and bo
 ok signing to follow in the English Lounge\, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall\n\nWe a
 re proud to partner with Buffalo Street Books at this event. Buffalo Street
  Books is Ithaca’s only non-profit independent bookstore\, dedicated to ser
 ving its community through books and literary programming. Kevin Green's bo
 oks are available online\, in store\, and on site at the reading. Show your
  student ID at BSB and get 10% off every day!\n\nFREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\
 n\nMasking is encouraged.\n\nWe strive to host inclusive\, accessible event
 s that enable all individuals\, including individuals with disabilities\, t
 o engage fully. To be respectful of those with allergies and environmental 
 sensitivities\, we ask that you please refrain from wearing strong fragranc
 es. The venue is wheelchair accessible and equipped with assistive listenin
 g technology. If you need additional accommodations to participate in this 
 event\, please contact us as soon as possible.\n\nFor more information abou
 t this event visit english.cornell.edu/zalaznick or email englishevents@cor
 nell.edu. \n\nThis event is presented by the Department of Literatures in E
 nglish / Creative Writing Program at Cornell University.
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SUMMARY:Reading by Kevin Young
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