Wednesday, October 23, 6:00 PM ET
Rose O'Neill Literary House
So You Want to Make a Podcast? With Diannely Antigua.
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.
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
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Rice Pudding Poetry Series
Please join Guest Host John Shea and Rice Pudding’s Community Readers for an evening of jazz and poetry featuring Diannely Antigua on Nov. 17, from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served, and a book signing will follow the reading. The evening will include original jazz performed by Dave Graf (guitar), Peter Braddock (drums), and Doug Green (bass) of Seasmoke.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator whose 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. She was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and chosen for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She resides in Portsmouth, NH, where she is the city’s 13th Poet Laureate. Diannely is host of the podcast Bread & Poetry.
All are welcome to this free event in the newly expanded and renovated Rice Public Library at 8 Wentworth Street, Kittery, ME. The gathering will take place in The New Community Room. For more information: https://www.rice.lib.me.us/
A queer grief reading and launch for "Say It Hurts" by Lisa Summe with Sara Watson, Jari Bradley, Micaela Corn, and Diannely Antigua
We're so excited to host the launch of local poet Lisa Summe's first full-length collection, out now from YesYes Books: Say It Hurts. Lisa will be joined by writers Sara Watson, Jari Bradley, Micaela Corn, and Diannely Antigua for a reading centered on themes surrounding queer grief. There'll be time for an audience Q&A at the end.
Copies of Say It Hurts will be available here on our ready-to-ship website, which also has a wide selection of recommended and best-selling books, store merch, book subscription boxes, and more. You can request specific books you don't see on the site through this form, too. All orders ship from our store in Pittsburgh.
Diannely's book Ugly Music is available on our Bookshop.org list for recent and upcoming events. Check out our curated lists and picks onour main Bookshop.org affiliate page, or use the search bar in the upper center-right to look for any book. (Using the book's ISBN usually works best.)
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You'll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm ET on 1/23. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket. For questions, check out our FAQ for events here.
Praise for Say It Hurts:
In Say It Hurts, Summe shows us what it can feel like to come home and come out again and again in the Midwest, home where a father can be “both nest & hawk,” home where a ten-year-old girl draws her dream wedding to a girl on a sheet of graph paper in math class, home where her body stands “steady like a home,” home where she misses the girl she loved and where she swims in the Allegheny River, home where the poem is the place and the girl she loved is there, too. —Julia Koets, Pine
Alive with moats of pink catfish, and gardens of boomerangs, Lisa Summe’s debut collection, Say It Hurts, draws us what we need most: new shapes of loss, new contours of love. And because we need it, Summe paints a vibrant queerness onto buzz cuts, backseats, and sleepovers. Forthright and declarative, Summe writes, in the book’s opening poem, “When a lesbian / writes a poem / it’s a lesbian poem.” What a queer wonder, to play light as a feather, stiff as a board. What a queer wonder to be both alive and capable of love, in a world that prefers we be neither. Summe writes, “see how I tried not to write a love poem but here it comes,” and it does come, and we love it. —Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Water I Won’t Touch
Summe's Say It Hurts is a manual for growing up that grown-ups still need. It's both a diary entry and a to-do list, a confessional and a set of instructions. To come of age as a queer person often means spending years trying to find the secret room where you most belong; Summe has taken that room and bulldozed the walls. This book has the answers that, for so long, felt like secrets. —Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
About the writers:
Lisa Summe is the author of Say It Hurts. She earned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, The Cincinnati Review, Muzzle, Waxwing, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. You can find her running, playing baseball, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh, PA and on Instagram and Twitter @lisasumme.
Sara Watson is a feminist writer and educator whose work appears inBOAAT, PANK, and The Southern Review. She lives in Pittsburgh with two little dogs.
Jari Bradley is a Black genderqueer poet and scholar from San Francisco, California. They have received fellowships and support from Callaloo, Cave Canem, Tin House, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. Jari’s work has been published in The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, Callaloo, Columbia Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Jari Bradley (MFA, University of Pittsburgh) is the current 2020–2021 First Wave Poetry Fellow at UW–Madison.
Micaela Corn is allergic to peanuts, hazelnuts, horses, and her beloved cat. She can eat milk only if it’s cooked, but butter is fine. (Don’t give her any protein shakes with whey powder; she’ll be too strong.) She has only experienced anaphylaxis once, as a six-month-old baby. One time when she was a little older, she swallowed a penny. She lives in Pittsburgh and sometimes writes poems.
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 Poem-a-Day, Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.
You are cordially invited to warm up my new apartment with poetry and (virtual) wine. I am hoping that this new apartment will make way for new poems and maybe even a new book! Please join me and some of my beloved poet friends for a night of words and community. I cannot wait to welcome you into my new home!
Please register at the provided Zoom link so I can see all of your beautiful faces!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIudu2hrDMoE9X_H_BBrBVxUNyznancUJ7R
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If you'd like, gifts can be made through the following gift registry or Venmo (@diannely-antigua).
Housewarming Registry: https://www.target.com/gift-registry/giftgiver?registryId=2a9a04b804be451fb9801b465eb60a79&lnk=registry_custom_url
Monday August 10 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
This reading will be held via Zoom
Register to attend here
Join the Whiting Foundation and Books Are Magic for a reading and conversation with Whiting Award-Winning poets: Aria Aber, Diannely Antigua, Jake Skeets and Genya Turovskaya!
Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New Republic, and elsewhere.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and received her MFA at NYU. She is the recipient of 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.
Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, a National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called Cloudthroat and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: A Diné Writers’ Collective and currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.
Genya Turovskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions, 2019) and of the chapbooks Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2002), The Tides (Octopus Books, 2007), New Year’s Day (Octopus Books, 2011), and Dear Jenny (Supermachine, 2011). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008. She is the co-translator of Elena Fanailova’s Russian Version (UDP, 2009, 2019) which won the University of Rochester’s Three Percent award for Best Translated Book of Poetry in 2010. She is also a co-translator of Endarkenment: The Selected Poems of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Wesleyan University Press, 2014). She lives in Brooklyn.
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Youth Slam! -- and Untitled Open Mic!
Tuesday, March 3, 6 to 9 pm
at Brew’d (61 Market Street, Lowell)
Featuring
Diannely Antigua
NYU MFA, UML Alum & Prize-Winning Poet!
PLUS Freeverse! Poetry Slam
CASH PRIZE: $50
Youth poets (ages 13 to 19) go head to head until the top scorer wins!
Spaces go to the first 6 poets to sign up, and they will go fast... If you're interested in competing, please send a message to douglasbishoppoet@gmail.com
Older than 19 or younger than 13? No slam? No Prob! Come and do your thing on the open mic! All styles, all orientations welcome…
As always, at Brew’d Awakening Coffehaus
(61 Market Street, Lowell, MA),
With all times approximate, as always…
6:00 Sign Up
6:30 Open Mic
7:30 Featured Poet
8:00 Youth Poetry Slam
9:00 All Done
About Our Featured Poet:
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. 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, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
For more information, visit https://diannelyantigua.com
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We strive to foster a space of inclusivity and respect/ We ask everyone to leave (in no particular order): ableism, ageism, classism, fatphobia, homophobia, misogyny, misandry, racism, transphobia, and all oppressive language, attitudes, and actions at the door. We look to hold ourselves and one another accountable to creating a culture in which we treat each other with consent and respect. This includes but is not limited to respecting people's physical and emotional boundaries and receiving explicit verbal consent before touching someone or crossing other personal boundaries. If you are disrupting our safer space we will ask you to leave.
Please reach out to Ricky Orng or Douglas Bishop with questions regarding the open mic or slam.
Join us for a reading by 2019 Poetry Festival features Diannely Antigua and Hyejung Kook, 5:00 PM at The Nines! Opening reading by Victoria Hudson. Free and open to the public.
For more Poetry Festival events, visit: https://www.openmouthreadings.com/2019-poetry-festival
DIANNELY ANTIGUA
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music was the winner of the YesYes Books Pamet River Prize. 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, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
More about Diannely at https://diannelyantigua.com/
HYEJUNG KOOK
Hyejung Kook's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, Half Mystic Radio, The Massachusetts Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Hyphen Magazine, and Pleiades. Other works include an essay in The Critical Flame and a chamber opera libretto. Hyejung was born in Seoul, Korea and now lives in Kansas with her husband and their two young children. She is a Fulbright grantee and a Kundiman fellow.
More about Hyejung at https://hyejungkook.tumblr.com/
VICTORIA HUDSON
Victoria Hudson is an MFA candidate and recipient of a Lily Peters Fellowship at the University of Arkansas. Her poems are published or forthcoming in jubilat, the Dunes Review, and Fogged Clarity. She is an Assistant Poetry Editor at the Arkansas International.
Northern Essex Community College’s Haverhill Campus, 100 Elliott St.
Free and open to the public, the reading will be held from 2 to 3:15 pm in the Pentucket Bank Lecture Hall, located in the Spurk Building.
