Kevin Young

Writing

Poetry

• "Faith," The Atlantic (August 2025)
• "Hereafter," Poetry Magazine (July/August 2025)
• "All Souls," The Atlantic (October 2024).
• "Diptych," Poetry (July/August 2023).
• "Ledge," Poem-a-Day (April 2023).
• "Altarpiece," The Bitter Southerner (April 2023).
• "Tonsure,” VQR (March 2020).
• "Dog Star," VQR (March 2020).
• "Boneyard," VQR (March 2020).
• "Hum," Paris Review (March 2020).
• "Shade," Paris Review (March 2020).
• "Egrets," Orion (December 2019). 
• "Mason Jar," New Republic (November 2019). 
• "Sting," Yale Review (October 2019).
• "Halter," Yale Review (October 2019). 
• "Oblivion," New Yorker (January 2015).
• "from Winehouse," Paris Review (March 2013).

Nonfiction

• "Kevin Young on James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My Mind,'" New Yorker (February 2025).
• "Nikki Giovanni's Legacy of Black Love," New Yorker (December 2024).
• "Rita Dove, The Art of Poetry," The Paris Review (Spring 2023).
• "And I One of Them," New York Review of Books (December 2021).
• "Juneteenth Is a National Holiday Now. Can It Still Be Black?," New York Times (June 2021).
• "Ralph Ellison's Slow-Burning Art," New Yorker (December 2019).
• "Going to the Movies with Toni Morrison," New Yorker (August 2019).
• "When You Go Away: Remembering W.S. Merwin," New Yorker (March 2019).
• "How to Hoax Yourself: The Case of A Gay Girl in Damascus," New Yorker (November 2017).
• "The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface," New Yorker (October 2017).
• "Moon Shot: Race, a Hoax, and the Birth of Fake News," New Yorker (October 2017).
• "Uninhabited," New Yorker (May 2016).
• "Repast," VQR (March 2015).