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!
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 FREE Generative Poetry Workshop for National Poetry Month with Poet Laureate Diannely Antigua and guest poet Alexandra Halaby.
Alexandra Halaby is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the intersections of language, the visual field, and collage. She’s the winner of chapbook competition for My Arab World & other poems of the body.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE MEMORY: FINDING THE WAY IN WITH DIANNELY ANTIGUA
Diannely Antigua will be reading poetry during the opening ceremony for BIPOC Fest. For more information, please visit the event website here!
Nov 21, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST ( 8PM EST-9PM EST)
Remote Reading: Register HERE!
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. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship; and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
Caryl Pagel is the author of Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2, fall 2020), Twice Told (University of Akron Press), and Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (Factory Hollow). She teaches in the NEOMFA program, directs the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and is a publisher and editor at Rescue Press.
This event was made possible by generous contributions from the KCAI Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice and the Creative Writing Program at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
The Breathing Body of This Thought
New BAP Editions Launch Party for Jason Koo's First Two Books
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Join Brooklyn Arts Press for a virtual launch party for our new editions of Jason Koo's first two books, Man on Extremely Small Island (2009) and America's Favorite Poem (2014). Originally published by C&R Press, the new editions have been freshly edited, each featuring significant changes: Man on Extremely Small Island has been slightly expanded, including a poem about Harvey Pekar cut from the first edition, and America's Favorite Poem has been printed in a sharper interior font, making the text much easier to read than in the first edition.
Click "Tickets" to get a free ticket to the event or a special book-deal ticket: $15 for one title + free shipping or $25 for both titles + free shipping. All books will be signed by Koo.
Poets Diannely Antigua, Gabrielle Bates, Jay Deshpande, Lee Herrick and JP Howard will open for Koo, and Joe Pan, writer, publisher and editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, will emcee.
Register HERE!
HVWC is proud to welcome Dr. Joshua Bennett back to read at HVWC for the third time along with first time readers Diannely Antigua and Zeeshan Pathan as they read from their new collections via Zoom. This reading is free and open to the public but we encourage a $5 donation.
Dr. Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of three books of poetry and literary criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—Owed (Penguin, 2020), and Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), which was a winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. In 2010, he delivered the Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the distinctions of Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ford Foundation, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry and elsewhere. He has recited his original works at venues such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Clinton Global Citizen Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. His first work of narrative nonfiction, Spoken Word: A Cultural History, is forthcoming from Knopf.
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. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship; and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
Zeeshan Khan Pathan attended Washington University in Saint Louis as a Kenneth E. Hudson Scholar where he studied poetry with Mary Jo Bang, Carl Phillips, and Fatemeh Keshavarz. He speaks several languages and translates from Urdu, Turkish, & Persian. At Columbia University, he received a fellowship to study poetry at the graduate level and he completed his MFA under Lucie Brock-Broido. Zeeshan is interested in world literature and literary theory, the poetry of the Middle East and India, and he also writes short fiction. His poetry has been featured in Tarpaulin Sky Press Magazine and poems are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, in an anthology of contemporary American Muslim writings by Red Hen Press, and in other journals. In his startling debut, The Minister of Disturbances (Diode editions, 2020), Zeeshan Pathan interrogates and subverts the calcified notions of identity (whether Islamic or American or human), the rules of citizenship, & the idea of the nation state. Unafraid of blending the lyrical and the political, he dramatizes the inner journey of the poet as his speakers confront world events including global climate change, the Afghan and Iraq wars, political conflicts from Egypt to India, American imperialism, the idea of the surveillance state, the aftermath of global terrorism, medical illness, displacement and exile.
Apr 02, 7:00 PM
Zoom Meeting
Dominican-American writers in Conversation:
Cleyvis Natera is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. She arrived in New York City at 10 years old with her mother and siblings and has made the United States her home. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Skidmore College and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from New York University. She is a recipient of the 2019 Carol Houck Smith Returning Contributor Award in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a fiction fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). Cleyvis received merit based writing scholarships to the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the VONA Voices Foundation. Cleyvis is hard at work on her first novel, “Neruda on the Park.” She currently lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband and two young children. She is a 2019-2020 PEN America Writing For Justice Fellow.
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. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she won the Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Scholarship and received her MFA at NYU where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
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Authors and editors of Portland’s YesYes Books come together for an evening of literary provocations celebrating the press’s eight-year history.
YesYes Books poets Diannely Antigua, Brandon Courtney, Matt Hart, and publisher KMA Sullivan will share their work. Books will be available for purchase. Founded in 2011, YesYes Books is a Portland-based publisher of poetry, fiction, and experimental art “that acknowledges and celebrates our passionate, complex, and boundless natures.”
This event is free and open to the public.
Poetic arts fest by Reality Hands + Pizza Pi Press
Featuring showcases from Peach Mag + Glow Worm Press
Featuring 2 days of readings and community building
Come meet, hang out with, and support artists in your community.
Both days begin with a book fair from 1-3.
Readings run from 3-9:30 on Saturday, 3-9:45 on Sunday
Party after on both days!
$10. Get tix at the door or at: http://www.realityhands.com/products/clouds-and-other-louds-ticket
Readings by contributors to the NYU Creative Writing Program’s nationally distributed literary journal.
Diannely Antigua’s book Ugly Music, forthcoming from YesYes Books, was chosen for the 2017 Pamet River Prize. Eric Gamalinda recently published The Descartes Highlands (Akashic Books, NY), his fifth novel and his first to be published in the US, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Prize. Jamie Quatro's debut novel, Fire Sermon, published in 2018 with Grove Press in the U.S., Picador in the U.K., and Anansi International in Canada.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Come get a signed early copy of Diannely Antigua’s debut collection Ugly Music!
Come to Booth #10084-86
Join us for a YesYes Books celebration of our upcoming spring titles at Cup & Bar in Portland, OR!
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Join THE BOILER, New Delta Review, Redivider, and Southeast Review for an evening of words for AWP-Portland!
Featuring Readings from Nabila Lovelace, Taneum Bambrick, Hai-Dang Phan, Ginger Ko, Kelly Grace Thomas, Jenny Molberg, Ángel Garcia, Diannely Antigua, Paul Tran, Dana Diehl, Irène Mathieu, Angie Sijun Lou, and Ginger Ko.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
