{"id":58,"date":"2014-03-15T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/?p=58"},"modified":"2014-04-18T15:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:02:55","slug":"kevin-young-april-17-2014-0730pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/2014\/03\/15\/kevin-young-april-17-2014-0730pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Young | April 17 2014, 7:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Young<\/strong> is the author of Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and Jelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times notable book for 2012, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and winner of the PEN Open Award. His new volume of poems is Book of Hours.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kevinyoungpoetry.com\/home.html\">Kevin Young&#8217;s website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/03\/30\/149559655\/newspoet-kevin-young-writes-the-day-in-verse\">Newspoet: Kevin Young Writes the Day in Verse, NPR<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2014\/01\/poetry-podcast-tracy-k-smith-reads-kevin-young.html\">Poetry Podcast: Tracy K. Smith Reads Kevin Young, The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.<\/p>\n<p>ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE.<\/p>\n<p>Parking is available under the museum for a flat fee of $3 after 6PM.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry is supported, in part, by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.<\/p>\n<p>All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p>Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, the Simms\/Mann Family Foundation, The Brotman Foundation of California, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and all Hammer members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Young is the author of Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and Jelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/2014\/03\/15\/kevin-young-april-17-2014-0730pm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kevin Young | April 17 2014, 7:30pm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[8,7,24],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hammer-readings","tag-hammer-2","tag-reading-2","tag-ucla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/KevinYoung_creditKateTuttle_BLOG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4riuZ-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}