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ACQUISITION NEWS
🔥 Introducing the SRP BRIDGES SERIES, to be curated by a different poet each year. The 2026 series is being curated by Kay Ulanday Barrett.
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From Bryan: "The 'Bridges' concept is important to me. When my dad gave me $1,000 years ago to publish my first book, the first book of SRP, that is what started everything. He barely had that $1,000, and I sure didn’t have it. That was a lot of money and still is. But he gave me that gift, and then ten days later his vehicle went off a bridge, and he died. From that gift and from that loss, I hope I’ve honored him by building bridges with SRP - across generations, geographies, identities, and even sometimes life and death. So it’s really personal to me, and it means a great deal to put that word on a chapbook series."
Our first signing of the SRP Bridges Series is Cai Sherley. Cai (he/him) is a black trans poet, teaching artist, and archivist with roots in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree from Smith College, where he helped establish the Weaving Voices Archives, documenting the history of student activism on campus. Upon graduation, he was the recipient of both the Ida B. Wells Prize for Distinguished Work in Africana Studies and the Emily Babcock Poetry Prize.
Cai is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. He is also an alum of The Watering Hole, a 2023 Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellow, and a 2025 Tin House Scholar and Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow. Cai is passionate about writing Black trans-masculine lives past & present in Amerikka, calling on a lineage of becoming. He now lives in Chicago, where he serves as a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center, and is an active member of the Crossroads Writers Collective for Black Queer writers.
SRP from the start has been about building bridges, and this is a way for authors we love to build bridges between audiences and new voices.
🔥 Check out our updated page dedicated to the Arkansas Queer Poets Series for news of two new faces joining the SRP fam - JC Andrews and Toni Garcia-Butler! The Arkansas Queer Poets Series highlights queer poets with a connection to our home state of Arkansas. Look for two fierce new chapbooks to hit the shelves in 2026!
🔥 More big news from Sibling Rivalry Press: we’re honored to announce that in June 2026 we will publish Alex Gildzen’s A Litter of Lists. Gildzen is a true elder of our community: a poet, artist, and cultural witness who danced at Stonewall, smoked pot with Allen Ginsberg, and was drawn by David Hockney. His poetry debuted in Kent Quarterly in 1962, his first chapbook followed in 1969, and since then his work has spanned print, performance, and protest. He has stood at the heart of gay and queer art for more than half a century.If SRP was coming back, we knew we had to honor the ones who built the houses we now live in. Alex is one of those elders. This book is a celebration of his life, his work, and the long, wild, unapologetic lineage of queer art.📚 A Litter of Lists is coming June 2026.
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MASTHEAD & CONTACT
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PUBLISHER: Bryan Borland
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EDITOR & COVER DESIGNER: S.A Borland
EDITOR: Kate Leland
CURATOR, BRIDGES CHAPBOOK SERIES 2026: Kay Ulanday Barrett
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FEATURED TITLE
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JUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY
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In ORIGINAL KINK, Jubi Arriola-Headley explores kink as mythscape of promised pleasure, lush and lustral, kink as Godzilla’s desire for softness and the boy gone “starburst,” kink as “the sun-soaked / surface of impossible kick,” as “something loose enough / to dance in.” At once soliloquy, praise song, and injunction, ORIGINAL KINK divines the brutal offices and beauteous comforts of syntax, street corners, and superheroes as sites for Black and queer (un)becomings. Accompanied by Eve, Isaac Newton, and a dizzying cast of daddies, Arriola-Headley writes into pleasure’s beyond, crafting poems that “glutton at spring’s source, / ever lovedrunk on / the insistent gush” of the world and create a dazzling, multiple “we.”
“ORIGINAL KINK is fixed to trick you with what seems an easy-going syntax. Careful. There’s warmth, sure. Love, yes lord. And even joy. But Jubi Arriola-Headley’s debut doesn’t go easy on religion, desire, power and the intersections where these collide with race, queerness, and gender. Throughout, the poet’s kinkiness is a crafty entanglement of hair texture, knots that upset schemes, and sexuality some demand be cut. Careful. Check: “I’m a freak, America, a peeping/Tyrone… outside looking in.” Then the poem sets its feet to throw hands. Arriola-Headley has been watching, America. He has some words for us. Perhaps we should step outside?”
— DOUGLAS KEARNEY, author of Sho
“This bold debut collection interrogates masculinity, family dynamics and state executions of black bodies with unflinching tenderness and a relentless compulsion to expose tyrannies both self-inflicted and externally imposed. ORIGINAL KINK harnesses bruising, vulnerable language with biblical cadence, narrative precision and a musical dexterity to create a poetic of witness, of hymns, striving to demonstrate that ‘This is how tyrannies are/ built. Like lullabies.’”
— MALIKA BOOKER, author of Pepper Seed
“In ORIGINAL KINK, Jubi Arriola-Headley speaks with a voice that the old folks back home would say sounds like he has an attitude problem: ‘Fix/your face to smile like your teeth/wasn’t butter yellow.’ These poems strut about and roll their necks. There are boasts and insult. But even when this book is sorrowful, it is proud: ‘I still want Daddy/to look at me like he does those dogs. Like I could win.’”
— JERICHO BROWN, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Tradition
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WE WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER.
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