KEVIN YOUNG is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Ardency and Dear Darkness. His collection For the Confederate Dead won the Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, and Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the author of the nonfiction book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness and the editor of seven previous collections, including The Best American Poetry 2011; The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing; and Blues Poems and Jazz Poems, from the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series. Young is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.