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Poetry on the Many Shades of Brown
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.