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Kevin Young & Claudia Rankine Discuss "Brown"

Kevin Young & Claudia Rankine Discuss "Brown"

FromLibrary Talks


Kevin Young & Claudia Rankine Discuss "Brown"

FromLibrary Talks

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
May 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Kevin Young, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and New Yorker poetry editor, recently published a new collection of poems titled "Brown: Poems." From James Brown to John Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed., Young meditates on all things "brown" and the ways culture shaped his personal experience growing up in Kansas. Joining him to discuss the book was Claudia Rankine, professor of poetry at Yale University and the author of "Citizen: An American Lyric." Rankine asks Young about his childhood memories, musical influences, and pop culture that makes us dance and think at the same time.
Released:
May 29, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Feed your brain every Sunday with the best live conversations from The New York Public Library. An eclectic mix of voices and perspectives, Library Talks features your favorite writers and the ones you’ll love next. Hosted by NYPL live event programmer, Aidan Flax-Clark.