![]() ![]() Monday (doors open 6:45 p.m.), Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas. Poets Kevin Young and Mary Szybist will read, discuss and sign their works as part of Inprint's Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, 7:30 p.m. In anticipation of that visit, I asked him to walk me through a short poem, "Bereavement Fare," from the recent collection. Young appears in Houston on Monday as part of the Margarett Root Brown Reading Series offered by Inprint, the city's leading literary nonprofit. "Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels," Young's 2011 poetry collection, won a 2012 American Book Award. "The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness" (2012), a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the PEN Open Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Book of Hours" (2014) is a finalist for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In nine books of poetry and prose, many of them grounded in African-American culture and history, Young casts a wide net over a range of subjects - from race to blues to film noir to the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Young, 44, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and English at Emory University. We remember the way words can make us feel and transport us." "That's why we read poems at weddings and funerals. "Poems speak to grief and even joy better than most anything else," Young tells me, during a recent morning phone call. ![]()
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