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Regina YC Garcia’s hotly anticipated 1st full-length poetry collection is now available for purchase with Aquarius Press/ Willow Books!

Pre-sales Begin Now!!! Purchases  through February 15, 2025, receive an “Out of This World” discount, just $15 (regularly $21)

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Praise for Regina YC Garcia’s Whispers From The Multiverse

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 with possibility. 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 leaves it 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 visions of a liberated future. 

—Tony Medina, author of Death, With Occasional Smiling and Because the Sky

“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. 

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 the trauma 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 of the entire Diaspora starting with Mother Africa and leading with hope to the stars. 

–Yvette R. Murray, author of Hush, Puppy

Everything about Regina YC Garcia’s Whispers from the Multiverse is holy, and from the AfroDeep, this poet creatively spins an amazing collection of poems that come together in song, in diasporic review, in a necessary review of Blackness. Herein, readers will be tantalized by lyricism and prose that explore the breadth of mothers, god, place, and the universe. There is conjuring here. There is prophecy here. There is praise here. In this valley of poems, there is indeed life. Garcia rocks us “Black and Forth” and in and out of consciousness through worlds, through streams of consciousness, through black ink on white pages, filling us up with “ancient incantations” from her “elders & their ghosts.” The poet dares us to read, commands us to be. These poems call on literary elders, the very words of god, the spirituals of Black women, and flings them into dark sky guiding us through the night where ”[t]he River Waits” she confirms. Garcia memorializes black boys in these poems, paints pictures of the vulnerability, the inevitability of Black grief in poems like “Elijah . . . surely” where a mother’s grief is as deep as her love. In “Waterproofed,” we glean what Black mothers have, for centuries, wanted to bequeath to their Black children: a lifejacket, a bullet proof vest, something to keep them alive. For “being able to conquer any fears,” to “not be pulled under [is] vital.” In these poems that speak of “days that lack humanity,” readers will be leveled up in spirit by the call and response of Southern voices, the lyrics of Negro spirituals and praise songs. For this poet, Black is a metaphor, a Bible story, an allegory, a staged truth. Garcia pontificates the pain, trauma, the degradation Black bodies have come to know in the AfroDeep, in poems like “Black Bodied.” Her literary prowess is one of storytelling that ushers in acknowledgement, reconciliation of truth. Garcia has offered up poems that render Black life gospel. There is, no doubt, proof in this collection that the words of Black women are life blood. Readers will be empowered by the bravery of Garcia’s poetic reach. 

Latorial Faison, Poet & Author

of Nursery Rhymes in Black, Mother to Son, 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History, and The Missed Education of the Negro: an Examination of the Black Segregated Education Experience

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