Watch Video of Kevin Young
Video Interviews
- Kevin is interviewed on PBS’s Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan (May 2022).
- Kevin talks about his work and reads poems in three videos for the T.S. Eliot Prize (January 2022).
- Kevin reads various poems from Arican American Poetry on NewsHour (November 2020).
- For Doubleday’s “Two Writers Talking” series, Kevin and Robin Coste Lewis discuss the role poetry plays in difficult moments in our history, moderated by Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim (November 2020).
- Kevin introduces the New York Public Library’s event about Malcolm X, for The Harry Belafonte Black Liberation Speaker Series (October 2020).
- Kevin reads Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” for Library of America’s Lift Every Voice Project (October 2020).
- NY1 speaks to Kevin about reading habits and libraries in the time of coronavirus (August 2020).
- Rare Books School hosts Kevin in conversation with Brian Cassidy, Julie Nelson Davis, and Nick Wilding (July 2020).
- OPEN BXRx speaks to Kevin about the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List (July 2020).
- PBS NewsHour interviews Kevin for their special, “America in Black and Blue 2020” (June 2020).
- Macleans Live hosts Kevin in conversation with Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote (June 2020).
- Kevin reads his poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (August 2019).
- CNN includes Brown in its story, “The Inescapable Message of Black Storytelling in 2018” (December 2018).
- Kevin participates in the grand finale of PBS’s The Great American Read (October 2018).
- Kevin is featured in the “Heroes” episode of PBS’s The Great American Read (September 2018).
- Kevin takes part in PBS’s The Great American Read, including an appearance in the opening sequence (September 2018).
- Kevin is interviewed on PBS NewsHour (July 2018).
- Trevor Noah interviews Kevin on The Daily Show (April 2018).
- Kevin is interviewed on Book Lust with Nancy Pearl (December 2017).
- Kevin visits the set of BuzzFeed’s “AM to DM” to talk about Bunk (November 2017).
- Kevin is interviewed on PBS’s “Book View Now” while at the Miami Book Fair (November 2017).
- Kevin speaks with NBC News about Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk (July 2017).
- Kevin appears on CBS This Morning to talk about James Baldwin and the Schomburg Center’s collection of Baldwin’s papers (July 2017).
- C-SPAN Book TV interviews Kevin about Bunk (June 2017).
- Kevin is a guest on CUNY TV’s Black in America (March 2017).
- Kevin is interviewed on ABC’s Here and Now (February 2017).
- PBS interviews Kevin during the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (February 2017).
- Kevin reads from Book of Hours on the New York Times “Read Around” (March 2014).
- Watch Kevin at the 2007 Library of Congress National Book Festival (2007).