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Diannely Antigua @ Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival
May
24
to May 26
Festival, Readings, Writing Workshop, Hybrid Event

Diannely Antigua @ Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival

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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.

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PSNY: The Moon Is Queer Poetry Virtual Poetry Workshop
Jun
6
7:00 PM19:00
Virtual Event, Writing Workshop

PSNY: The Moon Is Queer Poetry Virtual Poetry Workshop

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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.**

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Free Generative Poetry Workshop @ Portsmouth Public Library
Apr
27
12:00 PM12:00
Writing Workshop

Free Generative Poetry Workshop @ Portsmouth Public Library

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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. 

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Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Poetry Workshop (Hybrid)
Jan
16
5:30 PM17:30
Writing Workshop, Hybrid Event

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Poetry Workshop (Hybrid)

What To Do With the Memory: Finding a Way In

  • USM AND ONLINE PORTLAND (MAP)

A HYBRID Poetry Workshop

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.

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I Am Here: Affirmation as a Form of Resistance with Gabriel Ramirez
Dec
12
6:00 PM18:00
Writing Workshop, Bread & Poetry Project, Virtual Event

I Am Here: Affirmation as a Form of Resistance with Gabriel Ramirez

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.

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Workshop: The Poetry of First Date Impressions with Maya Williams
Aug
7
6:00 PM18:00
Virtual Event, Writing Workshop, Bread & Poetry Project

Workshop: The Poetry of First Date Impressions with Maya Williams

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.

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PPLP Poetry Workshop led by Diannely Antigua
Apr
8
1:00 PM13:00
Writing Workshop

PPLP Poetry Workshop led by Diannely Antigua

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.

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