You Are What You Read Series: Kevin Young

Our friend Kevin Young is the author of seven books of poetry and the editor of eight others, including Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels , winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and Jelly Roll: A Blues , a finalist for the National Book Award. His recent book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times Notable Book for 2012, a…