The Poetry Project

Don Yorty

A middle-aged man dressed in black stands on a small stage behind a music stand, speaking into a microphone. Behind him are deep red curtains lit with purple stage lighting. He faces the camera with his hands resting on his hips, suggesting a poetry reading or spoken-word performance.
© Pat Maples

Don Yorty is the author of three poetry collections, A Few Swimmers Appear, Poet Laundromat, and Spring Sonnets, and a novel, What Night Forgets. He blogs at donyorty.com: an archive of current art, his own writing, and the work of other poets. Poems written in his twenties, Fucking and Other Poems, will be published by Indolent Books in February 2026.