#TuesdayThought: Kevin Young on Style, Art, and Life | National Endowment for the Arts

I try very hard not to think about style when writing. Like Jean-Michel Basquiat said about painting, when I’m working I don’t try to think about art, I try to think about life. The job of the poem is to bridge the two

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