He is Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of literary collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta. 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 collection Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels won the 2012 American Book Award. Kevin Young is the author of eight books of poetry and editor of eight others. Now Twitter, like poetry, has become that accessible platform for experimentation, for discontent, for beauty, for breathlessness-such magnificent qualities in a medium! - Dave Wheeler, publishing assistant, Shelf Awareness All of his published poetry now resides in a lovely new book called Jimmy's Blues & Other Poems (Beacon, $16), but his renown was shaped more by his lengthy essays and novels, poetic as they are. It makes me wonder if an agitator like James Baldwin would have been more widely regarded as a poet had Twitter existed in his prime.
Poetry's strength often lies in its brevity. Young's latest trembles with the weight of grief, poems shaking against the void of those now absent as he confronts the death of his father. His new collection, Book of Hours (our review and an interview are below), is now gracing bookstore shelves. And Kevin Young (by the handle after his superb collection) is another tweeting poet of whom I am very fond. I'm certainly not the only one taking interest in Melissa Broder's ( use of Twitter, which reads as delectably as her poems, her latest book being Scarecrone (Publishing Genius, $14.95). Poetry, are cropping up, built around the social media wave, and I follow many poets on Twitter, where, poem or not, constraints on wordiness and context can conjure some of the most powerful images. The platform lends itself nicely to prose, much like serialized, Dickensian-era novels, but I often wonder if it weren't built for poets. Earlier this year, novelist Teju Cole drew special notice for employing his Twitter feed to publish a short story called "Hafiz," then again with his essay on immigration reform, "A Piece of the Wall." Buzzfeed Books ran the first scoop and then the second, and suddenly the story had become about so much more than literary experimentation.
For the better part of a week in mid-March, authors both acclaimed and emerging published stories on Twitter in the second annual Twitter Fiction Festival.
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