Award-winning poet, dynamic creative producer, seasoned educator & facilitator, and marketing maven with a commitment to mission-driven work

“Charity Yoro’s poems astonish—carefully wrought yet equally wild. Navigating the tensions between beauty, commodity and place, they perform a richly textured quick-step that is bold, sly, funny, tender, fierce.”

—Michele Glazer, author of Oregon Book Award Finalist fretwork

Charity E. Yoro’s debut poetry collection, ten-cent flower & other territories (First Matter Press 2023), explores what is lost in lineage, translation, transaction, and seeks reclamation through mapping. Through etymologies of place names and monuments and godheads to navigating complex geographies of mother/daughter, lover/other, colonizer/colonized; from ledger of transgressions to passage through birth canal, with quiet defiances against autocorrect, capitalization. It is a collection of constellation, origin story, futures.

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