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

you know, sharing that is happening, a sharing of both the emotion, but then also of this space.

That's really beautiful.

This gap.

Uh that's what I think a nocturne is thinking through.

Is a a gap in time, a gap in the daylight.

And, you know, this is

A tradition we're talking about, not always uh one thing, but you know, this gap in how one experiences the world.

And night can feel like that, at least it feels like to this speaker.

Do you write during that time?

Is this then a insomnia poem you feel?

Well h they appear here to me timid we happy or lucky.

There's a kind of envy that the speaker has for these bats who are private as dreams.

Is is that happening?

it here first, folks.

I mean what an amazing uh insight into this.

Very Lawrence.

His creatures are very interesting.

I prefer Marion Moore as perhaps in the end.

Were you thinking of Moore at all?

I mean is it a character in others of your poems?

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