Amiri Baraka reads “Rhythm Travel” at the 2008 Beyond Margins Celebration.


Amiri Baraka Reads “Rhythm Travel”

2018 Emerging Voices Fellow Jubi Arriola-Headley talks about the lack of equity in creative writing, the importance of essential truth over fact, and accepting the new virtual norm as it relates to community, claiming connections can be made through a screen. It's all just a matter of intention. 

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Jubi Arriola-Headley is a blacqueer poet, storyteller, & first-generation United Statesian born to Bajan (Barbadian) parents. His first collection of poems, original kink, is forthcoming (October 2020) from Sibling Rivalry Press. A 2018  PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow & an alumnx of the VONA & Lambda Literary writing communities, Jubi recently graduated from the University of Miami with his MFA in poetry. You can find him at justjubi.com

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PEN America Emerging Voices Podcast Episode 015 Jubi Arriola-Headley

The celebrated poet reads the seminal letter of political protest, in which she became the first and only person to date to refuse the highest honor bestowed upon an artist on behalf of the people. Background and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/16/adrienne-rich-national-medal-of-arts-letter/

Adrienne Rich declines the National Medal of Arts, 1997

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PEN America Emerging Voices Podcast Episode 015 Jubi Arriola-Headley

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