New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young will read from and talk about his work, in conversation with Tameka Cage Conley. The New York Times wrote “Keeping up with [Kevin Young] is like trying to keep up with Bob Dylan or Prince in their primes.” Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown, a New York Times Notable Book. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues was a finalist for both the...

Please join us for a Q & A session with Kevin Young in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 4 Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the New Yorker poetry editor and author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Brown, a New York Times Notable Book. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Young’s nonfiction, Bunk: The Rise of...

A collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program Named for Antonie Brentano—believed by many to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”—the Brentano String Quartet is beloved by audiences whether they are performing immortal repertoire or contemporary compositions. Currently the quartet-in-residence at Yale University, the members of the ensemble will share their expertise with student musicians as part of the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program.

R.O. Kwon is the author of The Incendiaries, published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago (U.K.). The Incendiaries was an American Booksellers Association Indie Next #1 Great Read and Indies Introduce selection, and it is being translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, BuzzFeed, Noon, Time, Playboy, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the...