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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And there's this real sense of both loss but also I I think uh not humor, but uh certainly a wryness, which is very Iowa, I I think, you know, a very Midwestern approach to uh one's heritage.
And there's also this kind of interesting
Quality that I I'm I'm still trying to capture exactly.
The stuttering, the darning, the making, the smudging, the mounting.
There's a activity there, but also a kind of poetic activity, I wonder.
And do you see this uh as a kind of ours poetica, a poem about what poetry can be or does or should do?
Right.
But they have a signature as as he kind of points out.
Yeah, I think it has that kind of lament for the makers quality as well.
You know, we uh I think it has so many tones in it, uh as you can hear us just talking through.
But I also think I'm so curious about the similar makers.
It's a very specific way of putting it.
Um and all those S it was stitched with similar scripts by similar makers.
That's almost a stitching sound at the end.
A a kind of you know, I always think that when someone's uh reaching for
think you called it a kind of folk way.
Um
It's not to give it the nobility of poetry, it's to let poetry be as noble as the folk thing.
You know, whether it's the Bible or I think in this case, as you point out all the more powerfully, the AIDS quilt, which is this tremendous memorial and uh speaks against silences.
I think though too, to call them makers uh and call them similar, I don't know how you you take that.
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