An evening of art, performance, and community, featuring Safe Haven Ballet, along with other featured guests & readings from Diannely Antigua, Portsmouth Poet Laureate.
Join us for a FREE Generative Poetry Workshop for National Poetry Month with Poet Laureate Diannely Antigua and guest poet Alexandra Halaby.
Alexandra Halaby is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the intersections of language, the visual field, and collage. She’s the winner of chapbook competition for My Arab World & other poems of the body.
One of the biggest TEDx events in the country, TEDxPortsmouth is an immersive, full-day event showcasing a diverse lineup of inspiring speakers, rousing artistic performances, local food and more. This 100% volunteer-run annual event is where the Seacoast comes together to connect and explore big ideas — science, the arts, the environment, humanity, entrepreneurship — in a shared experience emphasizing community, conversation, and inspiration. TEDxPortsmouth garners not only a huge local following, but a global reach with speaker videos generating more than a million views (and counting!).
For more information and to buy tickets to this amazing event, click here!
Come snag your copy of Good Monster by Diannely Antigua. Stay for readings by local poets and the spinning tunes of DJ Skooch.
Please join us at KGB Lit Bar for a reading with Diannely Antigua, Matthew Yeager, and Patty Crane.
Doors are at 7 PM, Reading at 7:30 PM
Join us for the second annual Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival from May 24 to 26 at 144 Montague Street or via Zoom! In the mornings, we’ll explore creative process and write new material in generative workshops. In the afternoons, we’ll listen to readings by the day's instructors, engage in craft talks with acclaimed poets and listen to panels on a variety of topics. In the evenings, participants will get the chance to read their own work during open mics and listen to readings from the day's panelists and other poets in our community. Read more about this year's lineup and view the full schedule below.
You can register for a single-day or three-day pass for in-person or virtual attendance. All participants will have access to livestream recordings of festival sessions upon request.
If you’re in need of financial aid, you can apply for a fellowship to register for the festival for free or at reduced cost. Fellowship applications are due April 21 at 11:59 PM (US ET). We strongly encourage writers from historically underserved and marginalized communities to apply, including (but not limited to) writers of color, LGBTQ+ writers, writers with disabilities and women writers. Click here to apply.
Note that by participating in, you agree to abide by our code of conduct and COVID-19 policy. All in-person attendees are required to wear masks (regardless of vaccination status) except readers at a safe distance on stage, and we will have masks available. Brooklyn Poets reserves the right to dismiss from our programs any participant found to be in violation of these policies. Thank you for respecting our community.
Closed captions will be available for the event through the Zoom livestream. For more information and to request additional accommodations, contact us.
With poet Diannely Antigua!
Poets love the moon, and the moon is queer. Yes, I said it. I'm interested in the word "queer" in relation to identity, but also as a verb, as in "to queer", to challenge expectations. Looking at poems written by beloved queer poets such as Chen Chen, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, and Donika Kelly, we will examine the moon in poetry, celebrate it, change it, and arrive at our own conclusions. This workshop is intended to be generative and exploratory. All levels of poetry experience are welcome!
About the Instructor: 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 Good Monster is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in 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, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. 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 and is currently the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 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.
* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**
Join us at UNH for a weekend full of poetry, readings, panels, celebrations and more!
Click here for the full schedule!
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Find Diannely Antigua at the following event:
7:00 - 8:30 PM | Headline Event - Dimond Library's Courtyard Reading Room
New Hampshire Teen Poetry Prize Winners: Leonardo Chung, Pearl Hoekstra-Toste, Pranavi Vedula
Headliners: Diannely Antigua, Mckendy Fils-Aime, Nathan McClain
Click here to register for Thursday’s event in-person or virtually.
Click here to register for Saturday’s event in-person or virtually.
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.
Please follow the link here for more information and registration!
Room 2504AB, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Thursday, February 8, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Combating stigmas and shame culture surrounding mental health, writers share poetry, nonfiction, and cross-genre work that embraces autism spectrum disorder, Anxiety, ADHD, OCD, Bipolar, and depression. These writers refuse to hide from or mask within an ableist society and through content and form, call attention to the creative powers of neurodiversity. They will share their work and discuss how their craft choices transform neurotypical language into a neurodiverse universe.
Moderator: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, PhD, writes poetry and nonfiction. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother (Wick Poetry Prize, KSU Press, 2019), Don't Touch the Bones(Lost Horse Press, 2020), and 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books, 2023). She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Denison University.
Oliver de la Paz is the author of six books of poetry and the poet laureate of Worcester, Massachusetts. His most recent book The Diaspora Sonnets was published in 2023 with Liveright Press. He is a founding member of Kundiman and teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in theLow Res MFA Program at PLU.
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American author of two books of poetry. Poems from her new collection, Bianca, were awarded Poetry's Bess Hokin Prize and have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A Kundiman fellow, Eugenia serves as a poetry editor at Adroit Journal.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. Her second collection Good Monster is forthcoming from Copper Canyon. She received her MFA from NYU.
Allison Blevins, a queer disabled writer, is the author of Cataloguing Pain, Handbook for the Newly Disabled, Slowly/Suddenly, and five chapbooks. Her next collection is forthcoming from Persea Books. She is the director of Small Harbor Publishing and the executive editor at the museum of americana.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2024
5:30 PM 8:30 PM
USM AND ONLINE PORTLAND (MAP)
ALL LEVELS
One day while walking home from the M train in Brooklyn, I saw a man stealing fruit on the corner of Myrtle Ave and Broadway. In a city of more than 6 million people, nothing that happened was surprising. But ever the poet, I wrote it down in my phone anyway and thought surely this mundane, very New York experience might find its way into a poem. Fast forward to a snowed-in January day, I thought I would use the quiet it would bring to sit down and write a poem. I looked through my phone and saw the line I had recorded months before, “As I watch a man steal fruit on the corner of Myrtle Ave and Broadway.” I wrote it at the top of the blank document, and almost without thought my next line was, “I want to know what to do with the memory.” These seemingly simple lines would then become the entrance into the poem, the Moby Dick of poems, the one I had been trying to write for over a decade about the traumatic event in my youth that shaped my sad girl psyche. I had entered the memory through a side door, one I didn’t know existed. The man stealing fruit was the door. In this workshop, we will explore our very own side doors, the way into the memory that haunts. We will read Catherine Barnett, Sharon Olds, and Marie Howe. This will be a generative space to explore and plant seeds for future poems.
+ PLEASE NOTE This workshop will occur IN-PERSON AND ONLINE. The week of the workshop, attendees will be emailed the exact location of the class and a zoom link.
Diannely Antigua and The Bread & Poetry Project present this free poetry workshop:
Virtual Poetry Workshop, I Am Here: Affirmation as a Form of Resistance (register here!)
Workshop Description:
“Not being who I am is unacceptable.” - Nikky Finney
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde
A catalyst to choosing oneself through difficult times and practicing the importance of our truth, “I Am Here: Affirmation as a form of Resistance” is a workshop where participants can speak back to what has made us feel small, invisible, and impossible throughout our lives. This workshop encourages participants to reclaim their bodies and histories. Whether it is a bully from childhood, someone who told you that you can’t, or a country with systems that have shown they don't care whether you are alive, it’s time to denounce the false truths others have given us about who we are and our worth.
Facilitator bio:
Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx writer, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. You can find his work in various spaces, including Youtube, and in publications like POETRY Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Adroit Journal, The Volta, Split This Rock, BOMB, Acentos Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly and others as well as Bettering American Poetry Anthology (Bettering Books 2017) What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump (Northwestern University Press 2019) and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT (Haymarket Press 2020). For more information visit www.RamirezPoet.com.
*We are pleased to offer this event free of charge, but ask if you might consider making a donation of any amount if it is within your means, as it helps us continue to offer free poetry resources. This event has been made possible by The Bread & Poetry Project.
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.
When: Saturday, November, 2nd 6:00 PM
Where: 801 Islington Street, Suite 12, Portsmouth, NH 03801
As this event is taking place on Día de los Muertos, we invite guests to contribute to our Ofrenda (altar space). Please bring photos of ancestors and offerings of flowers, etc to add to the Ofrenda for the evening.
Join Diannely Antigua, who is both the youngest and the first person of color to be named Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, and Ben Bacote, founder and director of NH PANTHER, writer, activist, and humanities teacher, for their latest offering in a series of lovely evenings of poetry and conversation. Antigua and Bacote will share selections by LatinX writers touching on the themes of love and resistance, and discuss the intersections of history, poetry, and activism through the lens of their personal experiences. Additionally, Antigua will record the event, to be featured on her podcast, Bread & Poetry. Appetizers and complimentary beverages provided by Vida Cantina.
Join us on October 24, 2023 at 8PM to celebrate Adroit's 47th issue with a reading featuring some of this issue's contributors!
The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our forty-seventh issue, hosted by Divya Mehrish!
Join via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81757218321
Readers will include:
Ahmad Almallah
Diannely Antigua
Kinsale Drake
Cora Enterline
Kelly X. Hui
Amanda Machado
Cintia Santana
Ahmad Almallah was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, and moved to the states when he was 18. His first book of poems in English is BITTER ENGLISH (Chicago 2019). His second is BORDER WISDOM (Winter Editions 2023). Other poems and prose of his in Arabic and in English are out there. He is Artist in Residence at UPenn.
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 collection, Good Monster, is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in 2024. She received her MFA at NYU and was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. She 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 and is currently the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the Young Native Playwrights Award, and the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She was named by Time Magazine as an artist representing her decade “changing how we see the world,” and is the founder of NDN Girls Book Club (www.ndngirlsbookclub.org).
Cora Enterline is a graduate student of Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin and nonfiction editor at The Spotlong Review. Her writing has appeared in Psaltery & Lyre and Hominum Journal. In her free time she hosts a wine club and literary salon.
Kelly X. Hui is a student journalist, abolitionist community organizer, and ghost writer (person who writes about ghosts). She is a Mellon Mays fellow studying English, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. In her free time, she works as a barista in the basement coffee shop of the divinity school.
Amanda E. Machado is a writer whose work has been published in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, and more. In addition to their essay writing, Amanda also is a public speaker and workshop facilitator on issues of justice and anti-oppression for organizations around the world. She currently lives on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland.
Cintia Santana's work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleaides, Poetry Northwest, Poem-a-Day, The Threepenny Review, and West Branch. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her poems have been selected for Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, as well as the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology. She teaches fiction and poetry workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet, was published by Four Way Books in September 2023.
Headlining Poets Diannely Antigua and Oliver de Paz will read at the Goethe-Institut 2 PM.
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.
When: September 21, 2023, 7 PM
Where: Nashua, NH Public Library
Join Diannely Antigua, who is both the youngest and the first person of color to be named Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, and Ben Bacote, founder and director of NH PANTHER, writer, activist, and humanities teacher, for their latest offering in a series of lovely evenings of poetry and conversation. The Black Voices event is being hosted by Nashua Public Library in Nashua, NH. Antigua and Bacote will share selections by Black writers touching on the themes of love and resistance, and discuss the intersections of history, poetry, and activism through the lens of their personal experiences. Additionally, Antigua will record the event, to be featured on her podcast, Bread & Poetry, and Nashua Public LIbrary will broadcast the event in coordination with the local cable access channel for accessible viewing.
Diannely Antigua and The Bread & Poetry Project present this free poetry workshop:
The Poetry of First Date Impressions with Maya Williams (register here!)
Description of Workshop: First impressions are fun to observe for their embodiment of awkwardness, the effect of imagery of first sights, and the setting of location that could either help or hurt a first meeting. This can especially be true in first date impressions whether you have experienced them, know you’re about to experience them, or heard of a person’s Bumble/Tinder/Hinge related befuddlement. This goes for romantic and platonic dates. Maya Williams will be using poems from their second collection Refused a Second Date, Khadijah Queen’s I’m So Fine, and Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency to encourage participants to write and discuss the poetic devices of displaying first date impressions.
Bio of Facilitator: Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently the seventh poet laureate of Portland, ME. Eir second collection Refused a Second Date will be released in October 2023. For more information visit https://www.mayawilliamspoet.com
*We are pleased to offer this event free of charge, but ask if you might consider making a donation of any amount if it is within your means, as it helps us continue to offer free poetry resources. This event has been made possible by The Bread & Poetry Project.
Join the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program along with Portsmouth 400 as we celebrate 25 years of building community with poetry!
All laureates will be present with Lauren WB Vermette representing the late Esther Buffler and Katherine Towler, author of The Penny Poet of Portsmouth, representing the late Robert Dunn.
We will have books and CDs for sale or donation from past projects available and Book & Bar and their fine wait staff will be serving drinks and food!
In the interest of time there will be no open mic at this event
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
CourageSpeaks NH uses photography, storytelling, and the arts to empower survivors and their communities to raise their voices against violence.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is an annual campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and to educate and support survivors of sexual violence. It is observed in April.
In celebration of Portsmouth NH 400 please join us for an evening of art, performance, and community featuring the collective imagination and talent of Safe Haven Ballet along with other featured guests and readings including Joanna Kelley, Assistant Mayor, Portsmouth, and Diannely Antigua, Poet Laureate, Portsmouth.
The evening is presented by: HAVEN, Safe Haven Ballet and The Rep and is graciously sponsored by Great Oaks Title Services, LLC.
Disclaimer: Trigger Warning: These performances are to honor survivors’ stories of sexual assault and human trafficking. This may be triggering to audience members. Trained HAVEN advocates will be available for audience members throughout the performance at any time.
I’m so excited for National Poetry Month right around the corner and this workshop I'll be teaching as Portsmouth Poet Laureate! Please join me Saturday, April 8th, 1-3 PM at the Portsmouth Public Library (Levenson Room).
This will be a generative workshop and attendees will leave with seeds for several new poems. There will be opportunities to share and to ask many questions along the way!
The PPLP Workshop is free and open to the public, but registering would be helpful to gauge attendance (https://diannelyantigua.com/poetry-workshop-registration). I can’t wait to talk poems with you all!
If you’re able, please consider making a donation to fund future endeavors to build community through poetry at www.pplp.org/donate.
The troubled poet, their writing fueled by mental illness, is a stock figure in the public imagination. This romanticized view glosses over the difficulties of living with a mental health condition, whether it is one’s own or a family member’s. Poets who write about mental illness will discuss both craft and practical issues: Why write about this subject? How does it influence form? What are the ethics involved? What does it mean to write publicly about a topic that is taboo in your community?
WHO: Sarah Viren, Randall Mann, Kemi Alabi, and Diannely Antigua
WHEN: Thursday, March 9th from 6-8 pm PST.
WHERE: Dead Line Seattle 114 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104
Black Lives Matter Seacoast is proud to present our First Black Excellence Conference as Day 1 of our Black Excellence Weekend! This empowering, one day conference draws talented BIPOC professionals from across different industries by offering access to distinguished speakers and panelists, as well as a trusted environment to network, celebrate excellence among our peers, and share innovative practices to advance our community. This event is open for all to attend!
The conference will close out with a panel titled, “Speak It Into Existence: Expanding Black Youth’s Definition of Excellence in New Hampshire." It will be presented by Diannely Antigua, Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire & NH PANTHER (Plymouth Area Network To Help End Racism).
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
