July 24, 2024 • Valzhyna Mort joins Kevin Young to read "Testimonies" by Victoria Amelina, which Mort translated from the Ukrainian, and "Map," by Wisława Szymborska, which was translated, from ...

Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Young is best known as a poet, author, essayist and editor. He has written 11 ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...