Hometown poet Jarvis Subia returns!

Poets@Play is a monthly creative writing workshop hosted by former Santa Clara County Poet Laureate David Perez. Each session features a different guest facilitator—or sometimes David himself—leading hands-on exercises to inspire creativity and new ideas.

Our Facilitator

Jarvis Subia is a Queer Latinx poet, educator, and performer originally from San José’s Seven Trees neighborhood, now based in Boston. With over a decade in spoken word and youth arts education, Jarvis is a 2019 Poetry Foundation Incubator Fellow and a former Programming Fellow with Harvard’s HipHopEx Lab. He earned his Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he studied the impact of spoken word in K–12 schools. A published author (Hello Joy, Black Lawrence Press), Jarvis has competed in 14 national poetry slams and his work appears in FEMS Anthology, Acentos Review, and Mother Tongue Anthology.

Workshop Description:

Rephrase/Refrain: a workshop about creating a cadence though language and viewing how the work changes when we revisit particular lines from the poem. The workshop is pull from the Classroom Workshop Guide section of my chapbook Hello Joy. In this workshop we will participate in a free write, discuss mine and other poets works, and follow a guided writing exercise.

No RSVP required. Just show up at 1:00pm

Admission: Free (donations welcome)

📍Location: Markham House @ History Park
635 Phelan Ave, San Jose, CA.

Free parking right outside of the main gate or in the lot at the end of Phelan Avenue (except during some History Park events.)

Once you walk into the park from Phelan Avenue, go straight until the road dead ends, then make a left. Markham House is then the second house on your left. There will be a flag over the steps that reads OPEN.