Jelly Roll: A Blues - Kevin Young

Kevin Young's first book, Most Way Home , was selected for the National Poetry Series and won the Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. His second book of poems, To Repel Ghosts , a double album based on the work of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, was a finalist for the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Young's poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , The Kenyon Review , and Callaloo . He is editor of the anthology Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers and the forthcoming Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthology Blues Poems . A former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Young is currently Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University.