Kevin Young
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1,056 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Kevin Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maybe she does have to leave.
The choice is never wide and never free.
This is very different than the never to have studied history in the weak calligraphy of songbirds' cages, which does sound amazing to have done.
So she's talking about history, but she's also talking about place and displacement.
Well, well said.
It's been a treat to read through this poem with you and think through some of these things and revisit Bishop.
So thank you so much for talking with us about this.
More from my conversation with Richard Blanco after the break.
Richard, welcome back.
Now, in our February 11th, 2019 issue, The New Yorker published your poem, My Father in English, which you'll read for us in a moment.
Is there anything you want to say about the poem first?
Why don't we listen to the poem?
Here's Richard Blanco reading his poem, My Father in English.
That was My Father in English by Richard Blanco.
Thank you for this beautiful and vivid portrait.
I mean, it's such a great portrait, and I think it's such a powerful evocation of language, imagination.
His Spanish-English dictionary kept us bedside like a Bible, and I loved this kind of
figure that you've created, starting with, you know, the Spanish in the beginning and soul with his soul, a Cuban alma that swayed, you know, there's these rhymes that you create that are so melodic that come and change right there in the middle with that kind of
You know, Buenos Dias, indeed, my family, you know, and the rhyme becomes almost the repetition instead of like sonic rhyme.
How did you think of that, you know, in terms of just that long syntax of the beginning and then sort of like the more, I don't know, blunt of the middle?
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