Kevin Young, poet, director of the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New Yorker poetry editor and the author of Bunk and Brown: Poems (Knopf, 2018), talks about his new collection of poetry, a reflection on race and history, including growing up as an African American in Kansas, also where the Brown v Board of Education and John Brown originated.

→ You can see Kevin Young in person at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, May 2 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on 135th St and Malcolm X Blvd where he will be in conversation with Claudia Rankine. This is a free event.

→ And at a ticketed event at the Brooklyn Historical Society on May 16 at 6:30 pm. 

→ He will also be doing a House of SpeakEasy show on May 22 at 7 pm at Joe's Pub at 425 Lafayette Street. This is a ticketed event.