Yona Harvey

Yona Harvey

Yona Harvey at Busboys and Poets, 2014
Occupation professor
Nationality American
Alma mater Howard University;
Ohio State University;
University of Pittsburgh
Genre Poetry

Yona Harvey is an American poet, and professor at University Of Pittsburgh.[1] She won the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.[2]

Life

She graduated from Howard University, Ohio State University, and University of Pittsburgh.

Her work appeared in jubilat, Gulf Coast, Callaloo, and West Branch.[3]

Family

She is married to Terrance Hayes.

Works

References

  1. ↑ https://www.cmu.edu/hss/english/people/faculty/bios/yona-harvey.html
  2. ↑ http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4546.asp?item=7880
  3. ↑ http://www.writing.pitt.edu/people/faculty/yona-harvey
  4. ↑ Schneider, Mike (June 26, 2013). "A review of Yona Harvey' s poetry collection Hemming the Water". Pittsugh City Paper. At her best — such as "Rose Lassi" — Harvey creates a feeling of something put together as well as the best machines that sew and sing, every word a necessary part of the whole humming beauty.
  5. ↑ Russell, Lauren. "Unraveling the Grand Cliché: Yona Harvey’s Hemming the Water". Asterix Journal. This shiftiness is Harvey’s particular genius. In poems that weave tenderness and violence, the expectation and the surprise, Harvey thwarts the grand cliché even as she courts it, stitching together a polyphony of voices, visions and songs in a patchwork too slippery for any matinee idol to wear.

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