Yeva Johnson – poet and musician.

Yeva Johnson is a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet, musician, and physician whose work grows out of her experiences as a Black, Jewish, lesbian, queer, feminist, mother, and community member. Her poems explore interlocking caste systems, belonging, joy, and the daily work of imagining a better world. Johnson’s writing appears in Bellingham Review, Obsidian, Sinister Wisdom, Yemassee, and elsewhere. A Radar Productions Show Us Your-Spines Artist-in-Residence, Mesa Refuge Healing Arts Fellow, and Brown Handler Writer’s Resident, Yeva is the author of Analog Poet Blues (2023).

“The poems of Analog Poet Blues are lessons in survival… These are poems of declaration that celebrate poetry as a transformative tool of change… rich, sexy, humorous, and smart.”

— Amber Flora Thomas, author of Eye of Water: Poems

“Yeva Johnson’s new collection of poetry reflects a lyrical spirit encountering the discreet moments that measure our lives. How culture changes around her, what worlds meet inside her, how she lives her humanism for others –this is the landscape of her poems; a terrain which welcomes us with sincerity and a wink.”
–Jewelle Gomez, author of Still Water

“I love this collection of poems: its range of forms, its intimate voice and conversational tone and I love how in these human forms it is deeply committed to the mystery of spiritual encounter. ‘Love itself, ‘ one poem says, ‘is all the magic we need.'”

–Kazim Ali, author of The Voice of Sheila Chandra