Dean Young
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Dean Young

Past Event: Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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Young has published over a dozen books, including Elegy on Toy Piano, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005. In addition, he has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1988 and 1996), the Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His poems have been included in Best American Poetry seven times.