Come snag your copy of Good Monster by Diannely Antigua. Stay for readings by local poets and the spinning tunes of DJ Skooch.
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.
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/
Theater For The People and The Word Barn presents…
CHOCOLATE FOR THE PEOPLE - A live recording of a new poetry album featuring original compositions by Stu Dias.
Chocolate for the people Is a live poetry jam that will be recorded live for T4TP first poetry album, featuring poems by:
Stu Dias
Diannely Antigua
Sarah Anderson
Samantha Searles
Najee Ayman Brown
Jeryl Palana & More
