"Young's gorgeous verses put me in some kind of trance." Mary-Louise Parker, Goodreads
Events & Appearances
Please contact venues to confirm times and other details.
2022
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- Festival of Faith and Writing
- Calvin College
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- Pen & Podium Series
- Denver Post Community Foundation
2021
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- Library Foundation of L.A. at 8pm ET
- "Lift Every Voice" (Virtual Reading)
- Amanda Gorman, Kris Bowers, Robin Coste Lewis & Safiya Sinclair
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- Kansas City Public Library
- "Lift Every Voice" (Virtual Reading)
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- Spokane Comm. College at 10:30am PST
- Spokane, WA (Virtual Event)
- Hagan Center Speaker Series
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- Geisel Library 50th Anniversary Series at 5:30pm PST
- San Diego, CA (Virtual Event)
- With Kimberley Phillips Boehm
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- USC campus at 3:00pm PST
- Virtual reading and conversation
- Los Angeles, CA
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- "A Tribute to Toni Morrison," 7:00pm EST
- Song of Solomon Marathon Reading
- Introduction by Kevin Young
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- "Pop Life: Literature and Culture"
- Library of Congress
- Washington, DC (Virtual Event)
- In conversation with Colson Whitehead
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- Cleveland Humanities Festival at 6:00pm ET
- Case Western University
- Cleveland, OH (Virtual Event)
- With Ben Vinson
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- Multi-Ethnic Literature in the US Conference
- Butler University
- Indianapolis, IN (Virtual Event)
- Keynote Reading and Q&A
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- Kansas City Public Library at 7:30pm ET
- "Lift Every Voice: The Enduring Power of Langston Hughes" (Virtual Event)
- Edgar Tidwell, Glenn North, Tahraji Milsap, Jayden James
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- 151st Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association at 12pm ET
- Harvard University
- Cambridge, MA (Virtual Event)
- Keynote address & reading
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- The Phi Beta Kappa Society at 7:00pm ET
- Virtual Event
- Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed & Viet Thanh Nguyen
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- National Book Festival at 6pm ET
- Washington, DC
- Live Conversation with Claudia Rankine, Phillip B. Williams, and Kevin Young
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- Garden of Verses 2021 at 6pm ET
- Virtual reading
- A Virtual Benefit for The Merwin Conservancy
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- Books Are Magic x Brookyln Book Festival at St. Ann's at 7pm ET
- Brooklyn, NY
- Event with Colson Whitehead
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- Free Library of Philadelphia at 7:30pm ET
- Virtual Event
- In conversation with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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- Miami Book Fair at 12pm ET
- Virtual Event
- In Conversation with Kaveh Akbar
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2020
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- New York Hilton at 3:30pm
- AHS 134th Annual Meeting
- Session 48: A History of Authenticity
- Beekman Room, Second Floor
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- Key West Literary Seminar
- Reading Between the Lines: Sports & Literature
- Key West, FL
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- Richard F. Celeste Theatre at 7:30pm
- Colorado College Keynote Talk
- With Poetry Reading, Q & A and Signing
- Colorado Springs, CO
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- *Postponed*
- Randolph-Macon College at 7:00pm
- Interview, Q & A and Signing
- Dalton Rm., Birdsong Hall
- Ashland, VA
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- *Postponed*
- Doris Duke Theater at 7:00pm
- Reading and Tribute to W.S. Merwin
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- Honolulu, HI
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- *Postponed*
- McCoy Studio Theater at 7:00pm
- Reading and Tribute to W.S. Merwin
- Maui Arts & Cultural Center
- Kahului, HI
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- Macleans Live Zoom Event at 7:00pm
- Carol Anderson and Kevin Young in conversation with Paul Wells
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- Rare Books School Virtual Event at 4:00pm ET
- Panel discussion with Brian Cassidy, Julie Nelson Davis & Nick Wilding
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- Virtual Schomburg Center at 6:30pm ET
- Lift Every Voice: 250 Years of African American Poetry
- New York, NY
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- Virtual Decatur Book Festival at 6:30pm ET
- Talk on African American Poetry
- Decatur, GA
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- Case Western University at 5:00pm
- Reading and Signing
- Cleveland Humanities Festival
- Cleveland, OH
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- Reading of "The Bluest Eye" at 11:44am ET
- Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences
- A day-long, virtual reading celebrating the life of Toni Morrison
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- Virtual Literary Salon at 7:30pm CT
- Graywolf Press
- In conversation with Natalie Diaz, Roy G. Guzmán, and Khaled Mattawa
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- Virtual Auburn Public Library at 7pm
- Lift Every Voice: Atlanta’s Contribution to the Black Poetic Tradition
- Atlanta, GA
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- Two Writers Talking series at 7pm ET
- Virtual conversation with Robin Coste Lewis, moderated by Glory Edim
- Knopf Doubleday
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- Chicago Public Library at 7pm ET
- Lift Every Voice
- Virtual Readings from African American Poetry
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- Princeton Public Library at 5pm ET
- Lift Every Voice w/Tracy K. Smith
- A virtual reading
2019
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- Schomburg Center
- 7th Annual Black Comic Book Festival
- 515 Malcolm X Blvd
- New York, NY
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- Rollins Chapel at 3pm
- Tucker Center MLK Multi-Faith Celebration
- Dartmouth College
- Hanover, NH
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- ***CANCELED***
- Knauss Hall at 7pm
- Western Michigan University
- Kalamazoo, MI
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- Langley Hall at 7pm
- CalArts 2019 Writer-in-Residence
- 24700 McBean Pkwy
- Valencia, CA
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- REDCAT at 8:30pm
- CalArts 2019 Writer-in-Residence
- 631 West 2nd St
- Los Angeles, CA
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- Lewis Arts complex at 10am
- Black Poetry Conference
- 122 Alexander St
- Princeton, NJ
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- Livak Ballroom at 4pm
- Talk on BROWN: Adventures in Being
- University of Vermont Davis Center
- Burlington, VT
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- Student Center at 5pm
- Chancellor's Distinguished Speaker Series
- UC Irvine Crystal Cove Auditorium
- Irvine, CA
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- Humanities Theatre at 4:30pm
- Durst Distinguished Lecture Series
- Purchase College
- Purchase, NY
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- ATC Building at 11am
- Calhoun Community College Writers' Conference
- Decatur Campus, 6250 Hwy. 31 North
- Tanner, AL
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- Alabama Center for the Arts at 7pm
- Calhoun Community College Writers' Conference
- 133 2nd Ave
- Decatur, AL
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- Mary Harris Auditorium at 6:30pm
- The Intersection of Fact, Fiction, and Art
- Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design
- Lighthouse Writers Workshop
- Denver, CO
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- Oregon Ballroom 203 at 1:30pm
- Tribute to Poet Wanda Coleman
- AWP/Oregon Convention Center
- Portland, OR
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- First Friday: Poetry Edition
- Schomburg Center
- 515 Malcolm X Blvd
- New York, NY
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- Wilson Auditorium at 4:30pm
- Monmouth University Visiting Writers Series
- 400 Cedar Ave
- West Long Branch, NJ
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- Prairie Lights Bookstore at 7pm
- Natl Book Found./Mission Creek Fest
- 15 South Dubuque St
- Iowa City, IA
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- Ferguson Library at 3pm
- Talk on Book of Hours (NEA Big Read)
- One Public Library Plaza
- Stamford, CT
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- Neuberger Museum of Art at 4:30pm
- Live reading with jazz music
- Purchase College
- Purchase, NY
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- Bechtel Conf Ctr, Encina Hall at 8pm
- Lane Lecture Series
- Stanford University
- Stanford, CA
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- Carla Hayden
- Schomburg Center
- 515 Malcolm X Blvd
- New York, NY
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- Beckham Hall at 6pm
- Lecture on "Hyperbole"
- Wesleyan University
- Middletown, CT
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- Lillian Vernon House at 12pm
- A Celebration of Yusef Komunyakaa
- NYU Creative Writing Program
- 58 W 10th St, NYC
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- Joe's Pub, at the Public Theater at 7pm
- House of SpeakEasy
- 425 Lafayette St, NYC
- w/Damion Barr, Eve Ensler & Boris Fishman
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- Reading with Yusef Komunyakaa
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
- Middlebury College
- Ripton, VT
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- Lincoln Center at 6pm
- World Premiere: The Booksellers
- Dir. D.W. Young, USA, 99m
- 165 W. 65th St, NYC
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- Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium
- Oxford, MS
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- Irish Arts Center at 3:30pm
- 11th Annual PoetryFest
- Heaney Edition with Paul Muldoon & Nick Laird
- 553 W. 51st St, NYC
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- Poetry Foundation at 7pm
- Poetry off the Shelf: A Celebration of Seamus Heaney
- 61 West Superior St, NYC
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