This event is a collaboration with the Marin Poetry Center Registrants will be sent a Zoom link upon registration. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and also collaboration with Coates on I. Harvey’s work has appeared in Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING, A Poet’s Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry and The Force of What’s Possible: Accessibility and the Avant-Garde. Yona Harvey has published two collection of poetry: Hemming the Water, for which she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (2020). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, PEN: America, The Indiana Review, The Sun, Tin House, Ms. Troubled Tongues was awarded the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2009 Oregon Book Award, the Idaho Poetry Prize, and the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize. (Sept.This Poetry Reading Series provides a unique opportunity to hear diverse and unusual sets of readers, in this case pairing long-time friends who rarely have the opportunity to appear together.Ĭrystal Williams’ fourth book of poetry, Detroit as Barn was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, Cleveland State Open Book Prize, and the Maine Book Award. Readers will be captivated by Harvey’s voice and vision.

Badu.” Discordant experiences and historical moments, as well as various types of rhetoric, are vividly placed in conversation with one another, allowing poems to offer a hypothetical testing ground for preserving history and jostling hierarchies. Harvey critiques popular culture and its myriad incarnations of “grand theft auto,” allowing poems to provide an alternate psychic space that affords the possibility of community and empowerment: “Part of the answer. Spanning a variety of literary forms, from prose poems and lyric fragments to sonnets, the work in this frequently gorgeous collection is unified by its concern with cultivating and articulating a collective consciousness. Harvey ( Hemming the Water) explores in her striking latest the relationship between freedom, social justice, and the lyric imagination.

Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey