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RECENT MEDIA

When award-winning poet and educator, Diannely Antigua, was nine years old, she and her family fell prey to a religious cult. For a decade, every aspect of her life was controlled, from what she could wear to who she would ultimately become. What helps her escape the cult is poetry, letting it guide her to her own inner voice. In this emotional and inspiring talk, Antigua shares her story of survival—the trauma, the aftermath, and her triumph.

RECENT MENTIONS and reviews

 
“The fierce intelligence of Good Monster shines in the distance between Antigua and her speaker. An exhilarating and painful read, Good Monster will strike a chord with anyone who struggles with the self-love necessary for deep relationships.”
— RHINO Poetry
“Antigua blends Eros and Thanatos until they’re practically indistinguishable. . . In the end, she seems to be making peace with her inner demon, giving life to an old metaphor, offering roses in the final poem.”
— North of Oxford
 
 
“Good Monster is one of the most successful and engaging treatments of confessional poetry in recent memory, a brilliant follow-up to Antigua’s award-winning debut. This is a book you will want to read over and over.”
— The Poetry Question
 

Recent PRESS

Graywolf Press Partners with Letras Latinas on New Latinx Anthology: GrayWolf Press, Feb 26, 2025

Graywolf Press is partnering with Letras Latinas to publish a new anthology of Latinx poetry. We Come from Everything: Poetry for the 21st Century will gather twenty-five poets who have not yet published more than one full-length book of poetry with the goal of highlighting a representative swath of Latinx poets of this moment, especially those with a sense of identity that is bound to multiplicity and capaciousness. Anthology co-editors Diannely Antigua and Laura Villareal further explained the anthology’s focus and their hopes for it.

 
 

Two new poetry collections and a literary journal exploring ‘the pastoral and the passed-over’ in Maine: The Boston Globe, May 17, 2024

“Why do love / and dying feel the same?” asks poet Diannely Antigua in her pulsing new collection “Good Monster” (Copper Canyon)…There is sadness in these poems, but they are not sad poems; a laughter moves through the collection, dark in moments, and pleasure, too, the strange pleasure, and strange necessity, of being a body with another body, and of being a body with your own body, with a winking flicker of joy-pain throughout her lines…”

Black Lives Matter NH Announces 2024 BLM New Hampshire Excellence Awards Ceremony: In Depth NH, April 17, 2024

At the 2024 BLM New Hampshire Excellence Awards, we will honor seven remarkable individuals…Diannely Antigua is our Excellence in Artistry Award winner!