Kevin Young's books of poetry include For the Confederate Dead (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), Black Maria (2005), Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003), To Repel Ghosts (2001), a finalist for the James Laughlin Award, and Most Way Home (Zoland Books, 1995), selected for the National Poetry Series and winner of the Zacharis First Books Award from Ploughshares. He also has edited the anthologies Blues Poems (Everymans Library, 2003), and Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), as well a volume of selected poems by John Berryman for the Library of America. He has received the Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University, as well as fellowships from Guggenheim, MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University, and he lives in Boston and Atlanta.

All the poems by Kevin Young that have appeared on Verse Daily:

Books by Kevin Young: For the Confederate Dead, Jazz Poems, Jelly Roll, Black Maria, Blues Poems, To Repel Ghosts, Most Way Home,

Other poems on the web by Kevin Young:
Two poems
Five poems with audio
Five poems
"Elegy, Father's Day"
"Ode to the Midwest"
"Everywhere Is Out of Town"

Kevin Young on Wikipedia.

About New Letters:
Poets in this issue: Willis Barnstone, Michael Blumenthal, Elaine Sexton, Kim Addonizio, Kevin Young, Adrienne Su, Mia Leonin, B.H. Fairchild, Michelle Boisseau, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Ray, Rabindranath Tagore, Desmond Egan, Bill Christophersen, David Wagoner, Peter Balakian