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latest news

  • A poem, "Bereavement," was featured in the June 22nd issue of The New Yorker
  • A poem, "Crowning," was featured in the February 23rd issue of The New Yorker
  • Dear Darkness featured in Brown Alumni magazine
  • Dear Darkness was featured as one of the "Best Books of 2008" on NPR's All Things Considered (December 2008). Listen
  • Young's Dear Darkness featured as one of ten "Books from Our Pages" in The New Yorker.
  • Young's poem "I shall be released" recently selected for Best American Poetry 2009 by David Wagoner
  • Young's sequence "Book of Hours" selected by Charles Wright for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2008.