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From KQED.

Music From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Grace Juan, in for Alexis Madrigal.

Ever since he was a child, Kevin Young has known he wanted to be a poet, and he's taken that dream to the next level.

The first black poetry editor for The New Yorker, Young has edited nine poetry anthologies and produced 13 volumes of poetry himself.

His latest is Nightwatch, a meditation on loss, reemergence, and our forgotten history.

He joins us to talk about his work and poetry today.

That's all coming up next, right after this news. Alexis Madrigal here. I'm actually off today, but we've got a pledge break going on, so you get a bonus on the pledge-free stream, podcast, or on our replay at night.

I write these meditations on the people and places

that make the Bay what it is, and we call the series one good thing. I was walking down Mount

Diablo Boulevard in Lafayette, the suburb in the East East Bay, when I saw a sign advertising

that the road was celebrating its 175th anniversary. Luckily, it's 2025, so the math is easy. Mount Diablo Boulevard

and its predecessors go back to 1850. If you know the area, the depth of history is a bit jarring.

Doesn't have that patina of Gold Rush era, California, the beginning of Angloul in this area. Lafayette is a charming little

commercial strip surrounded by big, fancy houses. It's a classic burb built mostly from

1960 to 1970, featuring perfect weather, a BART station, and some considerable distance from

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