Gary Young | |
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 Gary at Washington Square in 2009 | |
| Born | 1951 (age 71–72) |
| Occupation | Poet, printer, book artist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California Santa Cruz University of California, Irvine |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Children | 2 |
Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County. [1]
He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A. [2]
His work has appeared in Poetry, Antaeus, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Montserrat Review, [3] ZYZZYVA. [4] .
In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts.
His archive is held at Brown University. [5]
He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, [6] and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, [7] with his wife and two sons.
In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology through Lynx House Press.
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