Join us for a full day of readings, workshops, multi-genre performances, a small press fair, and more. Free and open to all! Register here for the festival!
Join us for a night of poetry! At MassArt On April 29th, at 6:30 pm, at Kennedy 208, Diannely Antigua and Kevin McLellan will share their work at the "Poetry & Beyond" event. Don't miss the opportunity to hear these two talented poets speak.
Reading and Q&A with local poets for National Poetry Month!
Library of America hosts Luz y Carbón, an AWP off-site reading featuring Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Brandon Som (winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry), Christopher Soto, Diannely Antigua, and Francisco Márquez in honor of Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology.
Join us for a poetry reading and conversation on the role of the localized poet laureate in service to the community. DIANNELY ANTIGUA (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) grapples with the body as a site of pain and trauma in Good Monster, chronicling her reckoning with shame, her fallout with faith, and the desire to feel pleasure in an inhospitable body. Love Prodigal by TRACI BRIMHALL (Kansas) lives in the dishevelment of starting over from a divorce and a new diagnosis, cycles of loss, heartbreak, family, and chronic illness, reaching for the slow, messy, and imperfect process of healing. CARIDAD MORO-GRONLIER (Miami-Dade County) plunges readers into Cuban American life on-the-hyphen in Tortillera, considering the role of language on gender, sexuality, diaspora, and shame. Moderated by NICOLE TALLMAN, poetry ambassador for Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
Poetry Reading Featuring Diannely Antigua - November 12, Durham, NH
Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence, Diannely Antigua will read her poem, "Golden Shovel with Solstice" which is included in the Latino Poetry anthology and share some of her other work with us as well. We will also read poems from the anthology focusing on the themes of Voice and Resistance, Family and Community, and Language. Our readers will include Daniel Chávez Landeros and Lucía Montás (both from UNH) and Mary Russell (Center for the Book). This event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Tuesday November 12, 2024, 5-7pm at Durham Public Library.
Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home is a major public humanities initiative, planned for 2024–25, that celebrates and explores the multifaceted legacy of Latino poetry. It is directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Lugares que llamamos hogar es una gran iniciativa pública en el campo de las humanidades, que se proyecta para el 2024 – 2025. Es dirigida por Library of América con el generoso apoyo del Fondo Nacional para las Humanidades.
Join poets Amanda Hawkins and Diannely Antigua at UpUp Books where they’ll read from their collections and discuss how poetry “cage[s] and cradle[s]” visceral truths. Hawkins’s forthcoming collection, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones(Wandering Aengus, 2025), “burns through themes of living, dying, of the spiritual, how human beings fit onto and into the earth.” Antigua’s Good Monster (Copper Canyon, 2024) “reckons with shame and her fallout with faith.” Both poets embrace darkness and ambiguity in their pursuit of spaces – bodily and otherwise – worthy of being called home.
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 PM ET
Rose O'Neill Literary House
Diannely Antigua Reading From Her Poetry
Wednesday, October 9
6:00 PM A SHOWCASE OF BLACK POET LAUREATES
PORTLAND - SPACE Gallery
Five Black poets from all over the U.S. who have held or currently hold the title of Poet Laureate in their city will read their original work and engage in a panel discussion moderated by former poet laureate of Portland, Maine Maya Williams. Featuring A$iahMae (Charleston, South Carolina), Andrea Vocab Sanderson (San Antonio, Texas), Diannely Antigua (Portsmouth, New Hampshire), Junious "Jay" Ward (Charlotte, North Carolina), and Melissa Ferrer-Civil (Kansas City, Missouri).
7-8:30pm [Hybrid] — Open Mic Night with Oliver de la Paz and Diannely Antigua
Bring your poems to Emily Dickinson’s garden! Readers will have 5 minutes each to make us feel “physically as if the top of [our] head[s] were taken off!” (Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 16 August 1870) Featured poets Oliver de la Paz and Diannelly Antigua will follow the open mic. Open mic sign-ups will be handled in advance via a Google Form and a lottery, and selected readers will be notified. Stay tuned for the Google form, which will be posted here.
Join us for our next Brooklyn Poets Reading Series event at 144 Montague on Friday, September 20, featuring poets Megan Pinto, Diannely Antigua and Hala Alyan! Free and open to the public, the event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Wine reception for in-person attendees will begin at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7. Book signing to follow.
Join us for an evening with Diannely Antigua and Ani Gjika.
Free and open to all. Donations are appreciated to support the GWC’s work in the community.
Join the Cambridge Public Library in celebrating Caribbean American Heritage Month with a poetry reading and conversation featuring two award-winning local poets with roots in the Caribbean, DIANNELY ANTIGUA and PATRICK SYLVAIN.
Each poet will read poems for about twenty minutes, to be followed by a wide-ranging conversation and audience Q&A.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of two books of poetry, including Good Monster, published just last month by Copper Canyon Press. She is the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American poet, writer, social and literary critic, and photographer who has published widely on Haiti and Haitian diaspora culture, politics, language, and religion. He is the author of several poetry books in English and Haitian, and his poems have been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Simmons
This reading and talk will be hybrid (via Zoom). It is co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: Lecture Hall, Main Library
Registration is required. There are 150 in-person seats available. There are 150 online seats available.
Join us for an event with Portsmouth Poet Laureate Diannely Antigua! She'll be joined by poet Maggie Dietz, with a conversation moderated by Mercy Carbonell!
Join us for a virtual reading with Diannely Antigua, AE Hines, & Collin Kelley!
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83904422258
Join us for the second annual Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival from May 24 to 26 at 144 Montague Street or via Zoom! In the mornings, we’ll explore creative process and write new material in generative workshops. In the afternoons, we’ll listen to readings by the day's instructors, engage in craft talks with acclaimed poets and listen to panels on a variety of topics. In the evenings, participants will get the chance to read their own work during open mics and listen to readings from the day's panelists and other poets in our community. Read more about this year's lineup and view the full schedule below.
You can register for a single-day or three-day pass for in-person or virtual attendance. All participants will have access to livestream recordings of festival sessions upon request.
If you’re in need of financial aid, you can apply for a fellowship to register for the festival for free or at reduced cost. Fellowship applications are due April 21 at 11:59 PM (US ET). We strongly encourage writers from historically underserved and marginalized communities to apply, including (but not limited to) writers of color, LGBTQ+ writers, writers with disabilities and women writers. Click here to apply.
Note that by participating in, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy. All in-person attendees are required to wear masks (regardless of vaccination status) except readers at a safe distance on stage, and we will have masks available. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community.
Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations, contact us.
Please join us at KGB Lit Bar for a reading with Diannely Antigua, Matthew Yeager, and Patty Crane.
Doors are at 7 PM, Reading at 7:30 PM
Join us on Sunday, May 19, from 11:40 a.m to 2 p.m. for free hourly poetry performances by Diannely Antigua, Omotara James, and Maya C. Popa at Fifth Avenue Blooms. This annual festival celebrating spring is presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and the Fifth Avenue Association, in partnership with the Academy of American Poets.
Diannely Antigua is the author of the poetry collections Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She hosts the podcast Bread & Poetry and is currently the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Omotara James is the author of the poetry collection Song of My Softening (Alice James Books, 2024) and the chapbook Daughter Tongue (Akashic Books, 2018). James’s poems have been featured in NPR’s Morning Edition, Poem-a-Day, and Poetry Daily.
Maya C. Popa is most recently the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton 2022; Picador, 2023) and the chapbook Dear Life (Smith|Doorstop, 2022). Her newsletter, Poetry Today, is a Substack bestseller and featured publication.
Schedule:
11:40 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Maya C. Popa
12:40 p.m. to 1 p.m.: Diannely Antigua
1:40 p.m. to 2 p.m.: Omotara James
Join us at UNH for a weekend full of poetry, readings, panels, celebrations and more!
Click here for the full schedule!
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Find Diannely Antigua at the following event:
7:00 - 8:30 PM | Headline Event - Dimond Library's Courtyard Reading Room
New Hampshire Teen Poetry Prize Winners: Leonardo Chung, Pearl Hoekstra-Toste, Pranavi Vedula
Headliners: Diannely Antigua, Mckendy Fils-Aime, Nathan McClain
Click here to register for Thursday’s event in-person or virtually.
Click here to register for Saturday’s event in-person or virtually.
The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series is excited to present current poet laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Diannely Antigua, as the popular program’s fourth reader of the 2023/24 season.
Antigua will read from her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 7, 2024, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing with the author.
Slam Free or Die, NH's longest running poetry slam & open mic series, will be featuring Diannely Antigua at Stark Brewing Company in Manchester, NH at 7PM on November 9, 2023.
Doors open at 7PM. $3-5 entry fee. Open Mic followed by feature.
Join us on October 24, 2023 at 8PM to celebrate Adroit's 47th issue with a reading featuring some of this issue's contributors!
The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our forty-seventh issue, hosted by Divya Mehrish!
Join via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81757218321
Readers will include:
Ahmad Almallah
Diannely Antigua
Kinsale Drake
Cora Enterline
Kelly X. Hui
Amanda Machado
Cintia Santana
Ahmad Almallah was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, and moved to the states when he was 18. His first book of poems in English is BITTER ENGLISH (Chicago 2019). His second is BORDER WISDOM (Winter Editions 2023). Other poems and prose of his in Arabic and in English are out there. He is Artist in Residence at UPenn.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. Her second collection, Good Monster, is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in 2024. She received her MFA at NYU and was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. She teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. She hosts the podcast Bread & Poetry and is currently the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the Young Native Playwrights Award, and the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She was named by Time Magazine as an artist representing her decade “changing how we see the world,” and is the founder of NDN Girls Book Club (www.ndngirlsbookclub.org).
Cora Enterline is a graduate student of Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin and nonfiction editor at The Spotlong Review. Her writing has appeared in Psaltery & Lyre and Hominum Journal. In her free time she hosts a wine club and literary salon.
Kelly X. Hui is a student journalist, abolitionist community organizer, and ghost writer (person who writes about ghosts). She is a Mellon Mays fellow studying English, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. In her free time, she works as a barista in the basement coffee shop of the divinity school.
Amanda E. Machado is a writer whose work has been published in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, and more. In addition to their essay writing, Amanda also is a public speaker and workshop facilitator on issues of justice and anti-oppression for organizations around the world. She currently lives on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland.
Cintia Santana's work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleaides, Poetry Northwest, Poem-a-Day, The Threepenny Review, and West Branch. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her poems have been selected for Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, as well as the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology. She teaches fiction and poetry workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet, was published by Four Way Books in September 2023.
Headlining Poets Diannely Antigua and Oliver de Paz will read at the Goethe-Institut 2 PM.
Join two award-winning writers for a foray into today’s poetry scene. Come and engage in thought-provoking discussions on identity, culture, and how we use language in unprecedented times.
This event promises to be an engaging experience with poets who have a breadth of knowledge, explore critical themes, and bring a unique linguistic exploration to their work. It’s an opportunity to engage with poetry that challenges conventions and fosters discussions on identity, gender, and language. It’s an occasion to celebrate women in poetry, engage with the craft, and explore contemporary themes through the lens of highly respected authors.
Join the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program along with Portsmouth 400 as we celebrate 25 years of building community with poetry!
All laureates will be present with Lauren WB Vermette representing the late Esther Buffler and Katherine Towler, author of The Penny Poet of Portsmouth, representing the late Robert Dunn.
We will have books and CDs for sale or donation from past projects available and Book & Bar and their fine wait staff will be serving drinks and food!
In the interest of time there will be no open mic at this event
Please join us on Sunday, May 21 for a special Silo Series reading celebrating three poets: Sarah Audsley, Max Heinegg, and Dianelly Antigua.
All proceeds benefit The Word Barn
$5 suggested donation | Doors at 3:30pm | Reading at 4:00
