diff --git a/cookiecutter/config.py b/cookiecutter/config.py
index a07aa1a8b..eb753ba1b 100644
--- a/cookiecutter/config.py
+++ b/cookiecutter/config.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import logging
 import os
 
-import poyo
+import yaml
 
 from cookiecutter.exceptions import ConfigDoesNotExistException, InvalidConfiguration
 
@@ -60,10 +60,10 @@ def get_config(config_path):
         )
 
     logger.debug('config_path is %s', config_path)
-    with open(config_path, encoding='utf-8') as file_handle:
+    with open(config_path, encoding='utf-8') as yaml_file:
         try:
-            yaml_dict = poyo.parse_string(file_handle.read())
-        except poyo.exceptions.PoyoException as e:
+            yaml_dict = yaml.safe_load(yaml_file)
+        except yaml.YAMLError as e:
             raise InvalidConfiguration(
                 'Unable to parse YAML file {}. Error: {}'.format(config_path, e)
             )
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6ab7e9abd..18bb42c66 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     'binaryornot>=0.4.4',
     'Jinja2<3.0.0',
     'click>=7.0',
-    'poyo>=0.5.0',
+    'pyyaml>=5.4',
     'jinja2-time>=0.2.0',
     'python-slugify>=4.0.0',
     'requests>=2.23.0',
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index ee3eab6d7..23dc24d68 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -175,9 +175,3 @@ def user_config_file(user_dir, user_config_data):
     config_text = USER_CONFIG.format(**user_config_data)
     config_file.write(config_text)
     return str(config_file)
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-def disable_poyo_logging():
-    """Fixture that disables poyo logging."""
-    logging.getLogger('poyo').setLevel(logging.WARNING)