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/