by Yeva Johnson (Author)
Analog Poet Blues captures the journey of a poet searching for romance and seeking justice in a world transformed from the analog to the digital age. This dazzling collection ventures beyond the mainstream at intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. These poems deftly reveal how an outsider becomes even stranger in an ever-evolving computer dominated landscape. Come take a trip around this wondrous electronically connected planet.
Author Biography
Yeva Johnson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, writer, and musician whose work appears or is forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Obsidian, sin cesar, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee, and elsewhere. Johnson explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere. She co-edited Joan Nestle's book A STURDY YES OF A PEOPLE, a Sinister Wisdom Sapphic Classic (2022). Yeva is a past Show Us Your Spines Artist-in-Residence (RADAR Productions/San Francisco Public Library), Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow at Mesa Refuge, and Rooted & Written Fellow of The Writers Grotto. She is a Brown Handler Writer's Resident, and poet in QTPOC4SHO, a San Francisco Bay Area artists' collective. Yeva's debut chapbook, ANALOG POET BLUES, was published in 2023.