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Jubi Arriola-Headley

Latest Title: Bound
Bound
Bound by Jubi Arriola-Headley

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 the author of two collections of poems: “Original Kink” (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Book Award; and “Bound” (Persea Books, 2024). He’s currently at work on a collection of essays, an excerpt of which received the 2023 First Pages Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee and Seminole lands.