In a review for The Poetry Foundation, Lenora Simonovis writes, “…it is poetry that allows the speaker to turn rage into something joyful and liberatory.” Read the full review here.

Bound
Poems by Jubi Arriola-Headley

The poems in Bound seek to carve a space in the world for Blackness and queerness 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, Jubi Arriola-Headley 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.

“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

Jubi Arriola-Headley (he/him) is a Black homoflexible poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian, and author original kink, which won the 2021 Housatonic Book Award. He 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 Lit Hub, Kweli Journal, and Southern Humanities Review, as well as on PBS NewsHour’s Brief But Spectacular. He lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands.

Original Trade Paperback / $18.00 (Can. $24.00) / ISBN 978-0-89255-578-9 / 80 pages / Poetry