Location: Carl Hansen Student Center SC 120
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!
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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 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.
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August 30, 2022 at 6:00 pm
Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer:
Carly Joy Miller
Diannely Antigua
Brionne Janae
Tommye Blount
Hosted by Nathan McClain
Exit Dance Theatre is joining The Actors Studio of Newburyport’s HERstory Month Fundraiser, performing Saturday, March 5, 2022 at the Firehouse Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. The show will feature new choreography, dance films (produced during COVID), and text by writers Blake Hammond, and Newburyport’s own Will Mombello. Special guest, award winning poet, Diannely Antigua, will be reading her work as well. Antigua’s poems have been described as "beautifully disturbing" and "dangerously alive”.
New choreography by Fontaine Dollas Dubus, Erin Staffiere and Jen Steeves, among others, centers around themes of societal struggles, faith, and the Southern Italian ritual dance of the Tarantella.
Tickets are $15.00. View current COVID-19 Protocols.
Performers: Fontaine Dubus, Wendy Durham, Nicole Duquette, Sarah George, Erin Staffiere, Jen Steeves, Yori Thomas, Anna Wallack, Julie Pike, Kayla Waldron, Edward Speck and special appearances by Elyse Brown and Victoria Grinnings.
Two poets and a fiction writer will share the stage to read from their works.
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Bernardo Wade curates the 53rd Radical Poetry Reading featuring poetry read by Diannely Antigua, Ross Gay, and Taylor Johnson.
Join us for a night of music and poetry, featuring the Beat Night Band and local poet Diannely Antigua. There will be an open mic so bring a poem to share!
The First Tuesday of the Month is always Untitled!
3-2-21, 6 to 8:30 pm
Untitled Open is zooming…
Featuring our original homie soaring far and wide with poetry,
Diannely Antigua!
Come out (virtually) to share on the open and/or listen and enjoy…
6 pm: Zoom opens
6:30: Open reading begins
Featured reading begins after open
8:30: All done!
About our feature:
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 the Pushcart Prize and chosen for the Best of the Net Anthology. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. For more information please visit https://diannelyantigua.com
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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!
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If you'd like, gifts can be made through the following gift registry or Venmo (@diannely-antigua).
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Tue, August 25, 2020
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Pangyrus Literary Magazine's 7th issue launches this month with readings by Diannely Antigua, Kevin McLellan, Kat Read, Tanya Larkin, Justin Danzy, and Ron MacLean. Kick back, relax, hear some great writing--and meet the editors and authors who've made Pangyrus one of Boston's most dynamic literary journals.
Monday August 10 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
This reading will be held via Zoom
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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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At a time of division, the Latinx familia of poetry come together from the UK and US to celebrate, uplift, grieve & raise our voices as one.
Poets from two of the key Latinx poetry anthologies of our time: LatiNext, the BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4 (Haymarket) and Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye) come together in THE FIRST MAJOR UK/US collaborative poetry event. Featuring US poets: Jose Olivarez, Carlos Andres Gomez, Jasminne Mendez, Antonio Lopez, Janel Pineda, Malcolm Friend and Diannely Antigua PLUS UK poets: Leo Boix, Maia Elsner, Patrizia Longhitano, Kat Lockton, Marina Sanchez and Juana Adcock.
With poetry and some music and dance. Celebramos.
20:00 BST
15:00 EST
12:00 PST
Eventbrite tickets available here.
No fee but a suggested donation of £5 to either an Afro-LatinX charity of your choice or LAWRS (Latin American Women's Rights )www.lawrs.org.uk
We stand with all those in the Latinx community but particularly with our Afro-Latinx hermanos y hermanas and the Latinx women suffering from domestic abuse at this difficult time.
Participants will be sent the link shortly before the event begins.
Please note: no homophobic, racist or any other offensive language will be tolerated. Participants will be removed immediately.
Camille Dungy • Robert Hass • Brenda Hillman
Major Jackson • Ada Limón • Matthew Zapruder
This year we are pleased to welcome six extraordinary poets including one Pulitzer Prize winner, a recipient of the Griffin International Prize, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, two National Book Critics Circle Award winners, and a recipient of the Pushcart Prize.
Thursday, June 25, 2020 via Zoom
5:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
This gathering of the community—all staff poets from this year’s Community of Writers’ Summer Poetry Workshop in Squaw Valley—will raise money for our scholarship fund, and we are delighted to announce that a portion of the proceeds raised during the reading will also benefit our friends at Cave Canem and their scholarship program. Books by the poets will be available for purchase online before and after the reading.
Community of Writers beloved and longtime poetry staff member Sharon Olds will welcome the audience to the event, and Community of Writers Poetry Workshop alum Diannely Antigua will emcee.
Buy books, meet authors, and support artists at the Bow Market Book Fair!
On Sunday, March 8th we're inviting some of our favorite booksellers, publishers, authors, and artists for a fun day dedicated to the love of books! We'll have live readings, a cookbook swap, demos, and plenty of cozy places to sit and read!
Join us for a reading celebrating the work of Latinx literary voices. This installment of the Latinx & Proud! Reading Series will feature Carlos Andrés Gómez, Diannely Antigua, Juno Nascimento, and Rosa Iris Alvarez.
Saturday, November 2, 2019, 6:30 PM
Diannely Antigua, Jessica Greenbaum, Mark Doty
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights
Named one of the best reading series in NYC as well as one of the 50 best free things to do in the city by Time Out New York, the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series takes place bimonthly at select venues in Brooklyn, with a summer stop on Governor’s Island. Readings are free and open to the public.
Each reading features three poets, with at least one from Brooklyn and one from outside the borough, pairing emerging with more established poets and focusing on those from underrepresented communities. Readings are curated by Jason Koo. For inquiries, contact us.
