Community Voices:Poets Speak-Yeva Johnson
In this weekly series, six Bay Area poets share new poems created in response to the current exhibitions. They will also describe the processes they employ in writing ekphrastic work. Join us on Zoom to listen and experience art and poetry that moves your spirit to consider power and liberation. Featured Poet Yeva Johnson, a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, musician, and physician whose work appears or is forthcoming in the Bellingham Review, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color Anthology, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee, and elsewhere, explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere. Yeva is a past Show Us Your Spines Artist-in-Residence (RADAR Productions/SF Public Library), winner of the 2020 Mostly Water Art & Poetry Splash Contest, and poet in QTPOC4SHO, a small and sustaining San Francisco Bay Area artists’ collective. The exhibitions on view are Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks and Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun. This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.
In this weekly series, six Bay Area poets share new poems created in response to the current exhibitions. They will also describe the processes they employ in writing ekphrastic work. Join us on Zoom to listen and experience art and poetry that moves your spirit to consider power and liberation. Featured Poet Yeva Johnson, a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, musician, and physician whose work appears or is forthcoming in the Bellingham Review, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color Anthology, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee, and elsewhere, explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere. Yeva is a past Show Us Your Spines Artist-in-Residence (RADAR Productions/SF Public Library), winner of the 2020 Mostly Water Art & Poetry Splash Contest, and poet in QTPOC4SHO, a small and sustaining San Francisco Bay Area artists’ collective. The exhibitions on view are Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks and Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun. This event is supported in part by Poets & Writers.