Styles and Obesessions: An Evening with CantoMundo Poets Diannely Antigua, Francisco Aragón, and Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez
Thursday October 15, 7pm
A poetry reading by Diannely Antigua, Francisco Aragon, and Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez. Co-sponsored with CantoMundo, a national poetry organization that cultivates a community of Latinx poets through workshops, symposia, public readings, and publications.The event will conclude with a reception/signing with books for sale courtesy of McNally Jackson.
Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here
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The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is not currently wheelchair accessible.
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Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). 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, 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, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. From 2022-2024, she was the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. In 2023, she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship to launch The Bread & Poetry Project, and in 2024, she was awarded an Excellence in Artistry Award from Black Lives Matter New Hampshire. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. She hosts the podcast Bread & Poetry which seeks to make poetry accessible to all in a way that nourishes the soul.
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. His books include, After Rubén (2020), Glow of Our Sweat (2010), and Puerta de Sol (2005). He’s also the editor of, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). His work has appeared in over twenty anthologies, most recently in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (2024). His most recent is a book of translations, Handbook of Foams, by Spanish poet Gerardo Diego, published in 2026 by Shearsman Books in England. A native of San Francisco, California, he is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, where he directs their literary initiative, Letras Latinas. He has read his work widely, including at universities, bookstores, art galleries, and the Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit: http://franciscoaragon.net
Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They are the author of La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and A/An (End of the Line Press). Their work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Lambda Literary, The Center for Book Arts, TAKT Residency in Berlin, The Frost Place, Studios at MASS MoCA, MacDowell, and CantoMundo. They teach creative writing at Clark University in Worcester, MA.
