Poets House Presents: Yona Harvey

Poet and writer Yona Harvey reads from her new collection You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (Four Way Books, 2020), from Pittsburgh, PA.

Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (Four Way Books, 2020) and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books, 2013), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.  She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda and co-authored, with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Black Panther and the Crew.  She has worked with teenagers writing about mental health issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine.  Her website is yonaharvey.com.

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTV, YouTube, and our Archive on Fridays at noon.