Kevin Young

Studio 360

Poet Kevin Young usually tackles themes we can all relate to – family drama, losing a friend, food. He shifts course with his new book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels. It recounts a slave rebellion aboard a ship headed to the U.S. and might be the first historical epic poem published in the last century.

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