Thursday, October 24, 6:00 PM ET
Rose O'Neill Literary House
Diannely Antigua Reading From Her Poetry
Wednesday, October 23, 6:00 PM ET
Rose O'Neill Literary House
So You Want to Make a Podcast? With Diannely Antigua.
7-8:30pm [Hybrid] — Open Mic Night with Oliver de la Paz and Diannely Antigua
Bring your poems to Emily Dickinson’s garden! Readers will have 5 minutes each to make us feel “physically as if the top of [our] head[s] were taken off!” (Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 16 August 1870) Featured poets Oliver de la Paz and Diannelly Antigua will follow the open mic. Open mic sign-ups will be handled in advance via a Google Form and a lottery, and selected readers will be notified. Stay tuned for the Google form, which will be posted here.
Join us on Tuesday, July 23 when we welcome poets Eugenia Leigh & Diannely Antigua to The Notebooks Collective for an evening of conversation about creativity and connection. We are thrilled to host this In Conversation, in which the poets will discuss their newest books, Bianca and Good Monster respectively, among other things.
This is a virtual event. RSVP here to receive the zoom link to join.
Join us for a virtual reading with Diannely Antigua, AE Hines, & Collin Kelley!
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83904422258
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.
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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.
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.
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!
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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
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
Zoom Launch Date: June 16th at 12:00 PM - 1:30PM PST
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction & Art | https://tinyurl.com/alchemy48launch | Free
We’ll take a dive into the worlds and minds of these characters who have shaped this issue with readings from contributors – established and emerging writers, published writers and PCC students alike. We’ll also hear from our design team on the creation of the 48th Issue of Alchemy and present on our collaboration producing a literary magazine throughout Zoom challenges and across many miles.
Launch Event Link:
https://tinyurl.com/alchemy48launch
There will also be a digital version of the issue posted on https://www.pcc.edu/literary-magazines/alchemy/
Writers House Virtual Reading April 14: Diannely Antigua & Kayleb Candrilli
Time: Apr 14, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time/ 10:00 PM EST (US and Canada)
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Bernardo Wade curates the 53rd Radical Poetry Reading featuring poetry read by Diannely Antigua, Ross Gay, and Taylor Johnson.
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Readings from poets featured in the anthology BreakBeat Poets vol 4: LatiNext —Malcom Friend, Diannely Antigua, and Jonathan Mendoza.
The First Tuesday of the Month is always Untitled!
3-2-21, 6 to 8:30 pm
Untitled Open is zooming…
Featuring our original homie soaring far and wide with poetry,
Diannely Antigua!
Come out (virtually) to share on the open and/or listen and enjoy…
6 pm: Zoom opens
6:30: Open reading begins
Featured reading begins after open
8:30: All done!
About our feature:
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. 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, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. 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, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. For more information please visit https://diannelyantigua.com
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A queer grief reading and launch for "Say It Hurts" by Lisa Summe with Sara Watson, Jari Bradley, Micaela Corn, and Diannely Antigua
We're so excited to host the launch of local poet Lisa Summe's first full-length collection, out now from YesYes Books: Say It Hurts. Lisa will be joined by writers Sara Watson, Jari Bradley, Micaela Corn, and Diannely Antigua for a reading centered on themes surrounding queer grief. There'll be time for an audience Q&A at the end.
Copies of Say It Hurts will be available here on our ready-to-ship website, which also has a wide selection of recommended and best-selling books, store merch, book subscription boxes, and more. You can request specific books you don't see on the site through this form, too. All orders ship from our store in Pittsburgh.
Diannely's book Ugly Music is available on our Bookshop.org list for recent and upcoming events. Check out our curated lists and picks onour main Bookshop.org affiliate page, or use the search bar in the upper center-right to look for any book. (Using the book's ISBN usually works best.)
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You'll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm ET on 1/23. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket. For questions, check out our FAQ for events here.
Praise for Say It Hurts:
In Say It Hurts, Summe shows us what it can feel like to come home and come out again and again in the Midwest, home where a father can be “both nest & hawk,” home where a ten-year-old girl draws her dream wedding to a girl on a sheet of graph paper in math class, home where her body stands “steady like a home,” home where she misses the girl she loved and where she swims in the Allegheny River, home where the poem is the place and the girl she loved is there, too. —Julia Koets, Pine
Alive with moats of pink catfish, and gardens of boomerangs, Lisa Summe’s debut collection, Say It Hurts, draws us what we need most: new shapes of loss, new contours of love. And because we need it, Summe paints a vibrant queerness onto buzz cuts, backseats, and sleepovers. Forthright and declarative, Summe writes, in the book’s opening poem, “When a lesbian / writes a poem / it’s a lesbian poem.” What a queer wonder, to play light as a feather, stiff as a board. What a queer wonder to be both alive and capable of love, in a world that prefers we be neither. Summe writes, “see how I tried not to write a love poem but here it comes,” and it does come, and we love it. —Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Water I Won’t Touch
Summe's Say It Hurts is a manual for growing up that grown-ups still need. It's both a diary entry and a to-do list, a confessional and a set of instructions. To come of age as a queer person often means spending years trying to find the secret room where you most belong; Summe has taken that room and bulldozed the walls. This book has the answers that, for so long, felt like secrets. —Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party
About the writers:
Lisa Summe is the author of Say It Hurts. She earned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bat City Review, The Cincinnati Review, Muzzle, Waxwing, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. You can find her running, playing baseball, or eating vegan pastries in Pittsburgh, PA and on Instagram and Twitter @lisasumme.
Sara Watson is a feminist writer and educator whose work appears inBOAAT, PANK, and The Southern Review. She lives in Pittsburgh with two little dogs.
Jari Bradley is a Black genderqueer poet and scholar from San Francisco, California. They have received fellowships and support from Callaloo, Cave Canem, Tin House, The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. Jari’s work has been published in The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, Callaloo, Columbia Journal, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Jari Bradley (MFA, University of Pittsburgh) is the current 2020–2021 First Wave Poetry Fellow at UW–Madison.
Micaela Corn is allergic to peanuts, hazelnuts, horses, and her beloved cat. She can eat milk only if it’s cooked, but butter is fine. (Don’t give her any protein shakes with whey powder; she’ll be too strong.) She has only experienced anaphylaxis once, as a six-month-old baby. One time when she was a little older, she swallowed a penny. She lives in Pittsburgh and sometimes writes poems.
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. 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, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.
Nov 21, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST ( 8PM EST-9PM EST)
Remote Reading: Register HERE!
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. 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, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
Caryl Pagel is the author of Out of Nowhere Into Nothing (FC2, fall 2020), Twice Told (University of Akron Press), and Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death (Factory Hollow). She teaches in the NEOMFA program, directs the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and is a publisher and editor at Rescue Press.
This event was made possible by generous contributions from the KCAI Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice and the Creative Writing Program at the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
The Breathing Body of This Thought
Our annual Saturday evening celebration of poetry might by BYOB this year, but it still promises to be the literary gathering of the weekend, as we bring together a talented group of poets to share their latest work in a casual, free-flowing setting, capably emceed by poet Krysten Hill (How Her Spirit Got Out), who will share some of her own work as well. Poets George Abraham (Birthright), Diannely Antigua (Ugly Music), Kay Ulanday Barrett (More Than Organs), and Franny Choi (Soft Science) will read from their latest collections and answer your questions as well. Join us and the co-sponsors of this event, Mass Poetry, to raise a glass or two with other poetry lovers at what’s become a BBF Saturday tradition.
New BAP Editions Launch Party for Jason Koo's First Two Books
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Join Brooklyn Arts Press for a virtual launch party for our new editions of Jason Koo's first two books, Man on Extremely Small Island (2009) and America's Favorite Poem (2014). Originally published by C&R Press, the new editions have been freshly edited, each featuring significant changes: Man on Extremely Small Island has been slightly expanded, including a poem about Harvey Pekar cut from the first edition, and America's Favorite Poem has been printed in a sharper interior font, making the text much easier to read than in the first edition.
Click "Tickets" to get a free ticket to the event or a special book-deal ticket: $15 for one title + free shipping or $25 for both titles + free shipping. All books will be signed by Koo.
Poets Diannely Antigua, Gabrielle Bates, Jay Deshpande, Lee Herrick and JP Howard will open for Koo, and Joe Pan, writer, publisher and editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, will emcee.
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Diannely Antigua will read from her debut collection Ugly Music with a Q&A session to follow.
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HVWC is proud to welcome Dr. Joshua Bennett back to read at HVWC for the third time along with first time readers Diannely Antigua and Zeeshan Pathan as they read from their new collections via Zoom. This reading is free and open to the public but we encourage a $5 donation.
Dr. Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of three books of poetry and literary criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—Owed (Penguin, 2020), and Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), which was a winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize. Bennett holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, and an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick, where he was a Marshall Scholar. In 2010, he delivered the Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with the distinctions of Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. Dr. Bennett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ford Foundation, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry and elsewhere. He has recited his original works at venues such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Clinton Global Citizen Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and President Obama’s Evening of Poetry and Music at the White House. His first work of narrative nonfiction, Spoken Word: A Cultural History, is forthcoming from Knopf.
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. 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, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Her heart is in Brooklyn.
Zeeshan Khan Pathan attended Washington University in Saint Louis as a Kenneth E. Hudson Scholar where he studied poetry with Mary Jo Bang, Carl Phillips, and Fatemeh Keshavarz. He speaks several languages and translates from Urdu, Turkish, & Persian. At Columbia University, he received a fellowship to study poetry at the graduate level and he completed his MFA under Lucie Brock-Broido. Zeeshan is interested in world literature and literary theory, the poetry of the Middle East and India, and he also writes short fiction. His poetry has been featured in Tarpaulin Sky Press Magazine and poems are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, in an anthology of contemporary American Muslim writings by Red Hen Press, and in other journals. In his startling debut, The Minister of Disturbances (Diode editions, 2020), Zeeshan Pathan interrogates and subverts the calcified notions of identity (whether Islamic or American or human), the rules of citizenship, & the idea of the nation state. Unafraid of blending the lyrical and the political, he dramatizes the inner journey of the poet as his speakers confront world events including global climate change, the Afghan and Iraq wars, political conflicts from Egypt to India, American imperialism, the idea of the surveillance state, the aftermath of global terrorism, medical illness, displacement and exile.
You are cordially invited to warm up my new apartment with poetry and (virtual) wine. I am hoping that this new apartment will make way for new poems and maybe even a new book! Please join me and some of my beloved poet friends for a night of words and community. I cannot wait to welcome you into my new home!
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Tue, August 25, 2020
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Pangyrus Literary Magazine's 7th issue launches this month with readings by Diannely Antigua, Kevin McLellan, Kat Read, Tanya Larkin, Justin Danzy, and Ron MacLean. Kick back, relax, hear some great writing--and meet the editors and authors who've made Pangyrus one of Boston's most dynamic literary journals.
Monday August 10 | 7:00PM - 8:00PM
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Join the Whiting Foundation and Books Are Magic for a reading and conversation with Whiting Award-Winning poets: Aria Aber, Diannely Antigua, Jake Skeets and Genya Turovskaya!
Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, New Republic, and elsewhere.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize. She received her BA in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and received her MFA at NYU. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. Her work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems can be found in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, The Adroit Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere.
Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water’s Edge. He is Diné from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, a National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Skeets is a winner of the 2018 Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Skeets edits an online publication called Cloudthroat and organizes a poetry salon and reading series called Pollentongue, based in the Southwest. He is a member of Saad Bee Hózhǫ́: A Diné Writers’ Collective and currently teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.
Genya Turovskaya was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and grew up in New York City. She is the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions, 2019) and of the chapbooks Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2002), The Tides (Octopus Books, 2007), New Year’s Day (Octopus Books, 2011), and Dear Jenny (Supermachine, 2011). Her poetry and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in Chicago Review, Conjunctions, A Public Space, and other publications. Her translation of Aleksandr Skidan’s Red Shifting was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008. She is the co-translator of Elena Fanailova’s Russian Version (UDP, 2009, 2019) which won the University of Rochester’s Three Percent award for Best Translated Book of Poetry in 2010. She is also a co-translator of Endarkenment: The Selected Poems of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Wesleyan University Press, 2014). She lives in Brooklyn.
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