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