Thu August 1, 2024
9th Ave: Jubi Arriola-Headley with Natasha Dennerstein, Danny Thanh Nguyen, & Baruch Porras-Hernandez
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Join us on Thursday, August 1 at 7pm PT when Jubi Arriola-Headley celebrates his collection, Bound, with Natasha Dennerstein, Danny Thanh Nguyen, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez at 9th Ave!
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Bound
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's Bound left me spellbound. In poem after poem Arriola-Headley shows how to plumb into the very heart of feeling through poetry's unique means, with a lyric assurance, formal variety, captivating sensibility, and lambent humor distinctly his own. Bound confirms he is one of our best!"-- JOHN KEENE, author of Punks: New & Selected Poems
"The poems in Bound are anything but bound. They are formally capacious as they navigate desire, masculinity, the body, queerness, and race with such skill and heart. I love Jubi Arriola-Headley's poems. They are big. They are bright. They weep. They soil. They weight. They parse, think, and challenge. One poem asks: "Can you perceive your edges? Do you bleed and blend into surrounding painscape?" This book does--it perceives the edges of what it means to be human and bleeds and blends all the feelings."-- VICTORIA CHANG, author of OBIT & The Trees Witness Everything
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's sophomore poetry collection reminds us that a jubilant and cunning black queerness is an answer to the joyless self-righteousness of a white godhead that has led to so many failures of masculinity modeled in its image. In a world that has been (mis)taken and (mis)shapen by man, these poems arrive like secrets, carrying "our scars and our memories" in lyrics generous and ebullient, with sass, love, and ancestral wisdom. In missives to nether regions, lost men, and gaggles of aunties, what a pleasure to read these trickster poems, "as if that's an icky thing to be." This book shows us how the world ought to be thought about, and will be one of the best and most complete poetry books you'll read this year."-- LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM, author of Negative Money & Travesty Generator
About Bound
A luminous, libidinous collection of poems from the author of Original Kink.
Bound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn't defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and conjure the worlds they want to live and love in. Beginning with a takedown of the God concept and moving through an incitement to revolution, Bound, along the way, plays with conventional notions of race, sex, sexuality, gender and pleasure, tearing down what we didn't build to make room for what's coming.
About Jubi Arriola-Headley
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and author of the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in February 2024.
Jubi's work has received support from Yaddo, Millay Arts, Lambda Literary, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and his poems have been featured in Literary Hub, Kweli Journal, & Southern Humanities Review, on PBS NewsHour's Brief But Spectacular, & elsewhere. He is currently at work on a memoir in essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize.
Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands, and his work explores themes of masculinity, vulnerability, rage, tenderness & joy. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. Stop Asian Hate. Art is Labor. Abolish Policing. Eat the Rich. Stay Kinky. Free Palestine.
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Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Bound
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's Bound left me spellbound. In poem after poem Arriola-Headley shows how to plumb into the very heart of feeling through poetry's unique means, with a lyric assurance, formal variety, captivating sensibility, and lambent humor distinctly his own. Bound confirms he is one of our best!"-- JOHN KEENE, author of Punks: New & Selected Poems
"The poems in Bound are anything but bound. They are formally capacious as they navigate desire, masculinity, the body, queerness, and race with such skill and heart. I love Jubi Arriola-Headley's poems. They are big. They are bright. They weep. They soil. They weight. They parse, think, and challenge. One poem asks: "Can you perceive your edges? Do you bleed and blend into surrounding painscape?" This book does--it perceives the edges of what it means to be human and bleeds and blends all the feelings."-- VICTORIA CHANG, author of OBIT & The Trees Witness Everything
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's sophomore poetry collection reminds us that a jubilant and cunning black queerness is an answer to the joyless self-righteousness of a white godhead that has led to so many failures of masculinity modeled in its image. In a world that has been (mis)taken and (mis)shapen by man, these poems arrive like secrets, carrying "our scars and our memories" in lyrics generous and ebullient, with sass, love, and ancestral wisdom. In missives to nether regions, lost men, and gaggles of aunties, what a pleasure to read these trickster poems, "as if that's an icky thing to be." This book shows us how the world ought to be thought about, and will be one of the best and most complete poetry books you'll read this year."-- LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM, author of Negative Money & Travesty Generator
About Bound
A luminous, libidinous collection of poems from the author of Original Kink.
Bound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn't defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and conjure the worlds they want to live and love in. Beginning with a takedown of the God concept and moving through an incitement to revolution, Bound, along the way, plays with conventional notions of race, sex, sexuality, gender and pleasure, tearing down what we didn't build to make room for what's coming.
About Jubi Arriola-Headley
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and author of the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in February 2024.
Jubi's work has received support from Yaddo, Millay Arts, Lambda Literary, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and his poems have been featured in Literary Hub, Kweli Journal, & Southern Humanities Review, on PBS NewsHour's Brief But Spectacular, & elsewhere. He is currently at work on a memoir in essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize.
Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands, and his work explores themes of masculinity, vulnerability, rage, tenderness & joy. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. Stop Asian Hate. Art is Labor. Abolish Policing. Eat the Rich. Stay Kinky. Free Palestine.
Join us on Thursday, August 1 at 7pm PT when Jubi Arriola-Headley celebrates his collection, Bound, with Natasha Dennerstein, Danny Thanh Nguyen, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez at 9th Ave!
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Bound
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's Bound left me spellbound. In poem after poem Arriola-Headley shows how to plumb into the very heart of feeling through poetry's unique means, with a lyric assurance, formal variety, captivating sensibility, and lambent humor distinctly his own. Bound confirms he is one of our best!"-- JOHN KEENE, author of Punks: New & Selected Poems
"The poems in Bound are anything but bound. They are formally capacious as they navigate desire, masculinity, the body, queerness, and race with such skill and heart. I love Jubi Arriola-Headley's poems. They are big. They are bright. They weep. They soil. They weight. They parse, think, and challenge. One poem asks: "Can you perceive your edges? Do you bleed and blend into surrounding painscape?" This book does--it perceives the edges of what it means to be human and bleeds and blends all the feelings."-- VICTORIA CHANG, author of OBIT & The Trees Witness Everything
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's sophomore poetry collection reminds us that a jubilant and cunning black queerness is an answer to the joyless self-righteousness of a white godhead that has led to so many failures of masculinity modeled in its image. In a world that has been (mis)taken and (mis)shapen by man, these poems arrive like secrets, carrying "our scars and our memories" in lyrics generous and ebullient, with sass, love, and ancestral wisdom. In missives to nether regions, lost men, and gaggles of aunties, what a pleasure to read these trickster poems, "as if that's an icky thing to be." This book shows us how the world ought to be thought about, and will be one of the best and most complete poetry books you'll read this year."-- LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM, author of Negative Money & Travesty Generator
About Bound
A luminous, libidinous collection of poems from the author of Original Kink.
Bound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn't defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and conjure the worlds they want to live and love in. Beginning with a takedown of the God concept and moving through an incitement to revolution, Bound, along the way, plays with conventional notions of race, sex, sexuality, gender and pleasure, tearing down what we didn't build to make room for what's coming.
About Jubi Arriola-Headley
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and author of the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in February 2024.
Jubi's work has received support from Yaddo, Millay Arts, Lambda Literary, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and his poems have been featured in Literary Hub, Kweli Journal, & Southern Humanities Review, on PBS NewsHour's Brief But Spectacular, & elsewhere. He is currently at work on a memoir in essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize.
Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands, and his work explores themes of masculinity, vulnerability, rage, tenderness & joy. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. Stop Asian Hate. Art is Labor. Abolish Policing. Eat the Rich. Stay Kinky. Free Palestine.
read more
Or watch online/Livestream link available soon
Praise for Bound
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's Bound left me spellbound. In poem after poem Arriola-Headley shows how to plumb into the very heart of feeling through poetry's unique means, with a lyric assurance, formal variety, captivating sensibility, and lambent humor distinctly his own. Bound confirms he is one of our best!"-- JOHN KEENE, author of Punks: New & Selected Poems
"The poems in Bound are anything but bound. They are formally capacious as they navigate desire, masculinity, the body, queerness, and race with such skill and heart. I love Jubi Arriola-Headley's poems. They are big. They are bright. They weep. They soil. They weight. They parse, think, and challenge. One poem asks: "Can you perceive your edges? Do you bleed and blend into surrounding painscape?" This book does--it perceives the edges of what it means to be human and bleeds and blends all the feelings."-- VICTORIA CHANG, author of OBIT & The Trees Witness Everything
"Jubi Arriola-Headley's sophomore poetry collection reminds us that a jubilant and cunning black queerness is an answer to the joyless self-righteousness of a white godhead that has led to so many failures of masculinity modeled in its image. In a world that has been (mis)taken and (mis)shapen by man, these poems arrive like secrets, carrying "our scars and our memories" in lyrics generous and ebullient, with sass, love, and ancestral wisdom. In missives to nether regions, lost men, and gaggles of aunties, what a pleasure to read these trickster poems, "as if that's an icky thing to be." This book shows us how the world ought to be thought about, and will be one of the best and most complete poetry books you'll read this year."-- LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM, author of Negative Money & Travesty Generator
About Bound
A luminous, libidinous collection of poems from the author of Original Kink.
Bound is a collection of poems that seeks to carve a space for Blackness and queerness in the world that isn't defined by trauma or lack, where Black and queer folks can seriously play, can create and conjure the worlds they want to live and love in. Beginning with a takedown of the God concept and moving through an incitement to revolution, Bound, along the way, plays with conventional notions of race, sex, sexuality, gender and pleasure, tearing down what we didn't build to make room for what's coming.
About Jubi Arriola-Headley
JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and author of the poetry collection original kink (Sibling Rivalry Press), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; his second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in February 2024.
Jubi's work has received support from Yaddo, Millay Arts, Lambda Literary, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and his poems have been featured in Literary Hub, Kweli Journal, & Southern Humanities Review, on PBS NewsHour's Brief But Spectacular, & elsewhere. He is currently at work on a memoir in essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize.
Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands, and his work explores themes of masculinity, vulnerability, rage, tenderness & joy. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. Stop Asian Hate. Art is Labor. Abolish Policing. Eat the Rich. Stay Kinky. Free Palestine.
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