S. Yarberry
S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. Their poetry has appeared in AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Indiana Review, jubilat, The Boiler, miscellaneous zines, among others. They currently run the little magazine Tyger Quarterly. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University where they study William Blake. Their first full-length book of poems, A Boy in the City, is out now from Deep Vellum.
CPC Readings
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Blue Hour Reading Series
with Dan “Sully” Sullivan
Haymarket House
Watch the reading:
Poetry by S. Yarberry
A world of fragment is my private life.
A world, though, is just the world to the public.
If my life is a field then it’s a dirt field.
Regular, and bearing all dragged through it.
Marked, is what I mean. The dirt harrowing.
In one moment the man curls himself into a ball,
a pink ball, like fire like something burning,
as the woman turns from him, all night,
into an eternal night, blazing, these bad lovers do this—an
ambiguous call comes up from the distance—no one
listens, anymore.