Join poet Jubi Arriola-Headley for a reading from his upcoming book Bound. He will be joined by authors Teri Ellen Cross Davis and Sylvia Jones.

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). He’s a recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award and 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, and elsewhere. He’s 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 and joy.

Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of a more perfect Union, 2019 winner of The Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and Haint, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is the 2022 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Robert H. Winner Memorial Prize. She has received fellowships and scholarships to Cave Canem, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and more. Her work has appeared in print, online, and in many journals and anthologies including: Harvard Review, PANK, Poetry Ireland Review, and Kenyon Review. She is the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Curator and Poetry Programs manager for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. and lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their children.

Sylvia Jones is an editor at Black Lawrence Press and works part-time as an adjunct lecturer in creative writing, she teaches at Goucher College and George Washington University. Her recent writing appears in R & R Journal, DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, the Santa Clara Review, Shenandoah, The Poetry Society of New York, The Cortland Review, Windfall Room, and other notable publications. She earned her MFA from American University in Washington, D.C. and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.