home.social

#kevinyoung — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kevinyoung, aggregated by home.social.

  1. I want to be doused
    in cheese

    & fried. I want
    to wander

    the aisles, my heart's
    supermarket stocked high

    as cholesterol. I want to die
    wearing a sweatsuit—

    I want to live
    forever in a Christmas sweater,

    a teddy bear nursing
    off the front. I want to write

    a check in the express lane.
    I want to scrape

    my driveway clean

    myself, early, before
    anyone's awake—

    ---
    -- Excerpt from "Ode to the Midwest" by Kevin Young

    Full poem is here:
    poetryfoundation.org/poetrymag

    #Poetry #TodaysPoem #KevinYoung

  2. "Our days are full of id right now ... but, hopefully the pure composure of fourteen lines can modulate that id factor a little bit in our day."

    Henri Cole, in conversation with Kevin Young about his poem "Figs" on a recent New Yorker #Poetry podcast

    #HenriCole #KevinYoung