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Poetry collection by Regina YC Garcia. Garcia's literary work primarily centers around issues related to family and culture, social justice, and human rights. She is committed to effecting change through the persistent literary address of inequities, inequalities, and disparities. She is also committed to the uplift of consciousness and spirit through education and the arts.

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Regina YC Garcia's Whispers from The Multiverse concerns itself with an Afrofuturity-Blackness existing in everything everywhere all at once-in a future that whiteness so fatuously tries to colonize-where past, present, and future collide and collapse into a multi-verse that embraces MotherGod, Sterling Brown's strong men, Anansi, and Brown girls defiant as Harriet Tubman surfing into a fate pregnant withpossibility. Preoccupied with the African notion of Sankofa-a return/homecoming, Garcia deftly displays the determination of, and detriment put upon Black people throughout time into a verse narrative that speaks in tongues-warp speed-yet leavesit where the goats can get it, as the elders would say. Whispers from The Multiverse is that ancestral voice whirring from centuries ago into the future that we may embrace our very humanity-warts and all-lest pay the ultimate price. And as any poet worth her weight in salt from the sea of life, Garcia accomplishes this with lyrical grace and visionsof a liberated future. Tony Medina, author of Death, With Occasional Smiling and Because the Sky When you open ""Whispers from the Multiverse"" by Regina Y.C. Garcia you will inhale the rich essence of these gorgeous poetic stories. Garcia weaves a tapestry of elegant poetry from legends, magic, folk tales, ancient wisdom, dreams, and her own truth. The book juxtaposes thetrauma of the African and their descendants in America with the wonder of our ancestors' STRENGTH, COURAGE, AND RESILIENCE. It calls each of us to reach back and strap on our memories to move forward within this present darkness. Her poetry moves with the pulses ofthe entire Diaspora starting with Mother Africa and leading with hope to the stars. Yvette R. Murray, author of Hush, Puppy Regina's YC Garcia's poems reach back to the roots of who we are, pull them from soil, and serve up a meal. Whispers from the Multiverse is the Sunday sermon that makes you scribble down notes and sticks with you for years."" B. Sharise Moore, Multi-genre Author and Poetry Editor of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

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Regina YC Garcia is a poet, language artist, and English professor. She is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she earned a BA in Speech Communication with a Concentration in the Oral Interpretation of Literature. She additionally earned an MA in Adult Education from East Carolina University, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature. She currently teaches English and is the Coordinator of Global Programs at Pitt Community College. She is the 2021 NSDAR American Heritage Poetry Award Winner, and in 2025 she was awarded the NSDAR American Heritage Woman in the Arts. Additionally, Garcia is a 2024 NCLR James Applewhite Finalist, a 2024 Jaki Shelton Green Finalist and a 2023 and 2024 Pushcart Nominee. Her publications of poetry and video poetry can be found in a variety of journals and anthologies including the South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Book of Black, Kakalak, I Tried Not to Write, Main Street Rag, The Amistad, Tulane University's Sacred 9 Project, The AutoEthnographer, Fiyah and numerous others. Her narration and poetry have also been featured (in The Black Light Project, a documentary which was the subject of an Emmy Award winning episode of PBS Muse: An Art Show.

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