The Ferguson Library will present the Keynote event of Stamford's Big Read, featuring Kevin Young, author of Book of Hours, on Sunday, April 7 at 3 p.m. A book sale and signing will follow the talk, and refreshments will be served. Click here to register for the event.
Book of Hours is a book of both grief and birth from the award-winning poet whose work thrills his audience with its immediate emotional impact and musical riffs. Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, newly named a National Historic Landmark, and Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. He is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose.
Book of Hours was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets—a prize that recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. In the judges' citation, A. Van Jordan wrote: “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."
The Ferguson Library's Main Library, DiMattia Building is located at One Public Library Plaza in Stamford, Conn. For more information, call (203) 351-8243.
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