About me
Currently based in the Boston area but born and raised in San Jose’s Seven Trees Neighborhood, Bay Area Spoken Word Poet Jarvis Subia is a Queer Latinx flower-loving Millennial devoted to performing poems from his heart to yours.
Jarvis is the 2019 Poetry Foundation and Crescendo Literary’s Incubator Fellow, the recipient of the 2019 Silicon Valley Creates & Content Magazines Emerging Artist Award, a 2019 Multicultural Artists Leadership Institute (MALI) fellow, San José Poetry Slam’s 2018 Grand Slam Champion, and has competed in 14 national and regional poetry slams. Recently, Jarvis earned his Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, studying the impact of spoken word poetry in K-12 schools. Jarvis' first published chapbook Hello Joy is now available through Black Lawrence Press.
Find more at his website flowerboywrites.com TV Guide and People, and president of Advance.net (Condé Nast and Advance Local). He lives in New Jersey.