ELJ Editions & Redacted Books present: The Be Well Reading Series' Celebration of Black History Month

Thursday, February 1, 7-8 p.m. EST via Zoom

Register for this free event on the event page.

Featured Readers: Jubi Arriola-Headley, KB Brookins, & Taylor Byas

Host: Nicole Tallman

Jubi Arriola-Headley (he/him) is a Blacqueer poet, storyteller, first-generation United Statesian and author of original kink: poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), recipient of the 2021 Housatonic Award. His second collection, Bound, will be published by Persea Books in February 2024. Jubi lives with his husband in South Florida, on ancestral Tequesta, Miccosukee, and Seminole lands.

KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of How to Identify Yourself with a Wound (2022), winner of the Saguaro Poetry Prize, the Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Poetry Prize, and a Stonewall Honor Book award; Freedom House (2023), a poetry collection recommended by Vogue and Autostraddle among others; and Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf 2024), their forthcoming memoir. KB’s writing is published in Poets.org, Teen Vogue, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They are a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts fellow. Follow them online at @earthtokb.

Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway, 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize, and a 2023-24 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow. She is the co-editor of two poetry anthologies, and the author of two chapbooks, the debut full-length I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, out from Soft Skull Press, and Resting Bitch Face, forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2025.