by Jarvis Subia
Click play below to hear Jarvis read ‘Ode to Cheese’ aloud.
Born and raised in the San José Bay Area, Jarvis Subia‘s work delves into his relationship with his communities, sexuality, masculinity, national/global politics, lineage, race, gardening, mental health, personal growth, love, love, and love.
Jarvis is San José’s 2018 Poetry Grand Slam Champion. He has been a part of 5 national poetry slam teams representing his college and city. His most heartfelt accomplishments are: graduating with a BA from San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program, placing 2nd in the nation for multi-voice poems in 2015 with the Palo Alto slam team, coaching a youth and 2 collegiate poetry slam teams for MACLA in San Jose and SFSU, and participating in the masters writing workshop at the 2017 Las Dos Brujas writers conference. Jarvis is a member of 2017-18 & 2018-19 Youth Speaks’ Emerging Poet Mentors collective, an in-class teaching artist for SFJAZZ’s Jazz In The Middle residency program teaching curriculums on the history of blues, poetry, & diaspora, and is the after-school poetry instructor for the Digital Media & Culture Studio at Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), a contemporary Latin arts and community organization based in San José.
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