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
Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night in person at the Equality Community Center at 15 Casco St in Portland AND online.
You may use this link to join us virtually: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/893705103
Please feel free to sign up for our open mic upon entering the ECC or in the chat online!
Automatic closed captions are available online.
In person friends, please remained masked in the building. If you are reading, you may take off your mask only while reading.
Donations are encouraged (Donations will be going to our funds for featured poets). Venmo @ MayaWilliams16, CashApp $williamsmay13, and PayPal at MayaWilliams16@gmail.com. Donations are also encouraged to the ECC at https://eccmaine.org/donate
Our feature this week is Diannely Antigua!
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 poetry collection is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in 2024. 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, Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program, and was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. 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 Poet Laureate and host of the podcast Bread & Poetry. For more information visit https://diannelyantigua.com
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/
Theater For The People and The Word Barn presents…
CHOCOLATE FOR THE PEOPLE - A live recording of a new poetry album featuring original compositions by Stu Dias.
Chocolate for the people Is a live poetry jam that will be recorded live for T4TP first poetry album, featuring poems by:
Stu Dias
Diannely Antigua
Sarah Anderson
Samantha Searles
Najee Ayman Brown
Jeryl Palana & More
Come celebrate our outgoing Portsmouth Poet Laureate Tammi Truax and our new Laureate Diannely Antigua with an open mic to follow.
Who:
When:November 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Where:
Portland’5 Winningstad Theatre (Poetry Foundation Stage)
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205
These poets confront the trauma of the past—the personal past and the shared past—while celebrating desire and love. Ugly Music, the debut collection from Diannely Antigua, explores reality, dream, trauma, and obsession, and how to create an identity informed by and in spite of the past. Jericho Brown’s The Tradition, longlisted for the National Book Award, details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal in poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma. Malcolm Tariq’s debut, Heed the Hollow, explores the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South in poems that reckon with a lineage of trauma while searching for beauty and love. Moderated by Erika Stevens, poetry editor at Coffee House Press.
We proudly present our Lit Crawl Portland 2019 event, Our Words Are a Bridge: An Evening with The Rumpus, Corporeal Writing, and YesYes Books!
Where:
Coporeal Writing
510 SW 3rd Ave #101
Portland, OR 97204
With readings from Diannely Antigua, Jennine Capó Crucet, Steph Cha, Brandon Courtney, Ross Gay, Matt Hart, and T Kira Madden. Hosted by Rumpus Editor-in-Chief Marisa Siegel.
This event is free and open to the public! Original event artwork by Lisa Lee Herrick.
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.
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.
Poets DIANNELY ANTIGUA, YSABEL Y. GONZALEZ, JOE JIMÉNEZ, and ORLANDO RICARDO MENES read from their work.
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, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
YSABEL Y. GONZALEZ was born in the Bronx, NY and raised in Newark, New Jersey. She received her BA from Rutgers University, an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and serves as the Assistant Director for the Poetry Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Ysabel has received invitations to attend VONA, Tin House, Ashbery Home School and BOAAT Press workshops. She is a CantoMundo fellow and her first full length collection, Wild Invocations, is available now from Get Fresh Books.
JOE JIMÉNEZ is the author of the poetry collection The Possibilities of Mud and Bloodline, a young adult novel. Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jiménez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017 to 2020. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
ORLANDO RICARDO MENES was born in Lima, Perú, to Cuban parents but has lived in the U.S since the age of ten. He considers himself Cuban-American. Since 2000 he has taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame where he is Professor of English and Poetry Editor of the Notre Dame Review. Menes is the author of six poetry collections, including Memoria (Louisiana State University Press, 2019), Heresies (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) and Fetish, winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. An NEA fellow, his poems have appeared in several prominent anthologies, as well as in literary magazines like POETRY, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, The Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Callaloo, Indiana Review, Cincinnati Review, Epoch, The Southern Review, and New Letters. In addition, Menes is editor of Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2004) and The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011). Besides his own poems, Menes has published translations of poetry in Spanish, including My Heart Flooded with Water: Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni (Latin American Literary Review Press, 2009).
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Diannely Antigua will be the featured poet at the Boston Poetry Slam on Wednesday, July 10, 2019.
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, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
Photo of the artist is courtesy Savuth Thor.
SCHEDULE
7:15pm: doors and sign-ups open
8:00pm: open mic
10:00pm: Diannely Antigua features
More info about the show: http://bostonpoetryslam.com/?p=9291
The show is 18+, $3 and the bar is cash only. Everyone must show a photo ID to enter the Cantab Lounge.
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Join Pigeon Pages for their June reading, featuring Lisa Marie Basile, Diannely Antigua, Kate Doyle, & Dennis Norris II, hosted by Alisson Wood.
You can always find them in their online nest at www.pigeonpagesnyc.com or @pigeonpagesnyc.
ABOUT YOUR READERS
Lisa Marie Basile is most recently the author of Nympholepsy, a poetry collection, and Light Magic for Dark Times, a collection of practices and rituals for self-care. She is the founder and editor of Luna Luna Magazine, and her work can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Entropy, Bustle, Bust, Best American Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, The Atlas Review, and more. She focuses her work on trauma recovery, foster care, self-care, the shadow self, chronic illness, and ritual. She received an MFA in Writing from the New School and is working on her forthcoming book, Wordcraft, which explores writing as ritual act.
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. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, 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 poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
Kate Doyle’s writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions and has appeared in Anomaly, No Tokens, Meridian, Cordella, the Franklin Electric Reading Series, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from NYU, where she was a graduate fellow at NYU Paris, and her work has been recognized by Glimmer Train and SPACE at Ryder Farm. She is writing a book of short stories.
Dennis Norris II is the author of the chapbook Awst Collection—Dennis Norris II, named a best book of 2018 by Powell's. A recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Tin House, VCCA, and Kimbilio Fiction, their stories have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named a finalist for the Best Small Fictions Prize. They currently serve as Assistant Fiction Editor at The Rumpus and co-host of the critically acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot. Based in Brooklyn, they are currently working on their debut novel. You can learn more at www.dennisnorrisii.com.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Alisson Wood’s writing has been published in places including The New York Times, Catapult, and Epiphany. She won the inaugural Breakout 8 Writers Prize, chosen by Alexander Chee, Hannah Tinti, and Tracey O’Neill on behalf of Epiphany magazine and the Author’s Guild. A graduate of NYU, she is a Professor of Creative Writing for undergraduates at her alma mater and teaches Creative Nonfiction at Sackett Street. She is the founder & editor of Pigeon Pages, an online literary journal and NYC reading series. You can find her online at alissonwood.com or on Twitter at @literaryTSwift. Her memoir, Being Lolita, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books (Macmillan).
ABOUT PIGEON PAGES
Pigeon Pages is a literary space where emerging and established writers from all backgrounds are encouraged to nest together. We seek to champion voices that are not always allowed to sing loudly. The reading series acts as a physical space to host our diverse writers, and the online literary journal is a supportive platform accessible anywhere and to all. Pigeon Pages NYC showcases established and emerging voices in literature side by side.
