Al young poet biography project

          Poet and novelist Al Young was born on May 31, , in Ocean Springs, Mississippi..

          Poet Al Young sings the praises of California

          August 10, 1997
          Elisabeth Sherwin -- gizmo@ dcn.davis.ca.us

          "Berkeley: A Literary Tribute" is a collection of short pieces from 47 poets and writers associated with the city on the other side of the San Francisco Bay.

          It includes bits by known and unknown Berkeley writers from Philip K. Dick to Jack Kerouac, from Suzanne Lipsett to Alice Kahn and happily it includes two poems by Al Young.

          Al Young was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in He is the author of eight poetry collections, including Dancing (); Something About the Blues.

        1. His poems were rich with the sounds, stories and histories of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Detroit, and his beloved adopted state of California.
        2. Poet and novelist Al Young was born on May 31, , in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
        3. THE MANY EXPRESSIONS OF grief at the death of poet Al Young () are a testimony to the considerable extent that he was an important and much-loved West.
        4. American novelist and poet.

          5. Young was born in Mississippi in 1939 and grew up in Michigan where he began his undergraduate career at the University of Michigan. He completed his degree at UC Berkeley.

          "I emigrated here -- to California -- at age 21 in 1961," he told a group of book-lovers this summer at UC Davis.

          Now 58, he has made Northern California his home for more than 30 years.

          During that time, he has written innumerable poems and articles, four novels and four musical memoirs including 1995's "Drowning in the Sea of Love."

          For Young, words and music