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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 2.

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The New Yorker: Poetry · Mark Wunderlich Reads Spencer Reece · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

Because we were talking about the the fullness of rhyme and what it does.

And uh maybe you can help our listeners understand what slant rhyme does, at least for you.

Well and you know, w in a way, uh to be serious for a moment about it, this is a pandemic poem and and the Spencer poem we're looking at was a poem about pandemic.

I wonder how it figures here.

Do you f think there's a kind of are the bats just bats or do they do more?

I mean I see more.

I see this I who is so interesting to me.

I see them for what they seem, which is n

Not the same as for what they are.

Is there a mission there that the self can't quite know these strangers in their house?

Aaron Powell

No, no, I was just saying

I was just saying that

But for many folks, you know, they lost folks.

So they lost many family members.

I think I went to seven Zoom funerals during that time.

I mean it it was a harrowing time.

And these bats are both part of that and not part.

I mean, there's this moment where you say they scare some

Stanza break, but not me.

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