Her poems and essays can be found in The Force of What’s Possible: Accessibility and the Avant-Garde and Writing Away the Stigma: Ten Courageous Writers Tell True Stories About Depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, OCD, PTSD & more. Yona Harvey is the author of Hemming the Water (Four Way Books, 2013), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in poetry. , Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing. & when the glaciers get to melting,Īll God’s River’s we shall haunt. You’ll clutch my hand, we’ll swim in circles. I’ll meet you at the River’s Bottom,ĭressed in silver scales with fin. To call the water that would drown us-įirmament. Once our Mama raised our arms: so we could speak the sacred tongues. (Ganga of Glaciers, Ganga of Snow, Ganga of Forgiven). You, my sister.Ĭome now sister, ashes & all. Left to find the cold that called me: You my sister. Out there shall never love you, said my Preacher. Was kin to river turned to Flame.Īs a child I dreamt that river. The series is supported by grants from the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture, Windrose Fund, Poets & Writers, and The Satterberg Foundation.In this poem by Yona Harvey, the idea of Legacy is underscored not only through oppression but the enduring spirit of Black womanhood in power connecting to her primordial spirit. Lyric World: Conversations with Contemporary Poets is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike. Her essays and nonfiction writing have appeared in Tricycle, YES! Magazine, The Rumpus, City Arts, The Stranger, Medium, and others. Her work has appeared in publications throughout the U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Shin Yu Pai is the author of ten books of poetry. She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay. Her work has been published and anthologized in numerous places, including Letters to the Future: Black WOMEN / Radical WRITING. Her first poetry collection, Hemming the Water, garnered Harvey the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Yona Harvey is an American poet, professor, and Marvel Comics writer. This lyric, this unique, multimedia gift is evidence of an awakening only a few poets ever approach.”
Weaver says, “Her voice is essential to making a cultural wholeness that would otherwise be impossible. Grounded deeply in the resistance of Black women, Harvey writes of ancestry, inheritance, and loss.
In this week’s episode, correspondent and poet Shin Yu Pai shares the fourth installment of Lyric World, featuring poet Yona Harvey in a conversation about Harvey’s newest book, You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love.
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