WHAT TO DO WITH THE MEMORY: FINDING THE WAY IN WITH DIANNELY ANTIGUA

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Share an open mic night with fellow poetry enthusiasts! First, published poets Carla Schwartz and Diannely Antigua will share their work. Then the mic will be opened for anyone else wishing to share. Please limit yourself to one poem that fits on one page.  This presentation will also be available via Zoom.  Please email erin@meredithlibrary.org for a link. 

Filmmaker and photographer Carla Schwartz’s poems have been widely published and anthologized, including in The Practicing Poet (Diane Lockward, Ed) and in her collections “Signs of Marriage,” “Intimacy with the Wind,” and “Mother, One More Thing.” Her CB99videos youtube channel has 2,400,000+ views. Many of her poems are inspired by her being a gardener, long-distance swimmer, cyclist, hiker, and cross-country skier who spends close to 6 months of the year living on Bear Island in Meredith, and lives otherwise outside of Boston. Find her at  carlapoet.com, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com, or on Twitter.com/cb99videos, or Instagram.com/cb99videos. Recent publications appear in The Ear, Channel, The MacGuffin, The Poet's Touchstone, and Leon.

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.  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 Laureateand host of the podcast Bread & Poetry. 

CONTACT: Erin Apostolos 603-279-4303 erin@meredithlibrary.org

Join @DominicanWriters on IG live here on Saturday October 17 at 1PM.

Diannely Antigua will read from her debut collection Ugly Music with a Q&A session to follow.

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 

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.

About this Event

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.

RESERVE YOUR SPACE TODAY!

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.

Join us on Sunday, April 19 at 3pm PST/6pm EST via Instagram Live (@juan_luis711) for a platica with two megawatt poets, Diannely Antigua and Eduardo C. Corral. Hosted by Juan Luis Guzmán.