Kevin Young Is the Winner of the 2015 Lenore Marshall Prize

As we made mention of earlier, Kevin Young is the recipient of this year's Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his new collection: Book of Hours. More:

Emory University poet Kevin Young has won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Book of Hours," his collection of poems about the loss of his father and the birth of his son. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous calendar year.

Young is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, and curator of literary collections and of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).

"As if walking through a gallery of grief, reverie, and transcendence, Kevin Young's 'Book of Hours' exemplifies what poetry can do in the world when language works at its full power," said judge A. Van Jordan. "The poems in this collection hold emotion taut on each line while allowing for the nimbleness of language to drape over them, bringing tension between the heart and the mind, as Young consistently surprises us with profound elegance." [...]

Congratulations, Kevin Young! Learn more, via Emory University.