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Kevin Young is an American poet, author, and director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1970, he studied at Harvard University with Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido, and received his MFA from Brown University. He is the author of more than ten poetry collections, including Dear Darkness (2008), Book of Hours (2014), and Brown (2018). Read more →