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Kevin Young on Poetry and History

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 5, 2021

Kevin Young, poet, New Yorker poetry editor and the author of Stones: Poems (Knopf, 2021), talks about his new book of poetry and his new job as director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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