Headlining Poets Diannely Antigua and Oliver de Paz will read at the Goethe-Institut 2 PM.

Diannely Antigua will be reading poetry during the opening ceremony for BIPOC Fest. For more information, please visit the event website here!

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Exit Dance Theatre is joining The Actors Studio of Newburyport’s HERstory Month Fundraiser, performing Saturday, March 5, 2022 at the Firehouse Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. The show will feature new choreography, dance films (produced during COVID), and text by writers Blake Hammond, and Newburyport’s own Will Mombello. Special guest, award winning poet, Diannely Antigua, will be reading her work as well. Antigua’s poems have been described as "beautifully disturbing" and "dangerously alive”.

New choreography by Fontaine Dollas Dubus, Erin Staffiere and Jen Steeves, among others, centers around themes of societal struggles, faith, and the Southern Italian ritual dance of the Tarantella. 

Tickets are $15.00.  View current COVID-19 Protocols.

Performers: Fontaine Dubus, Wendy Durham, Nicole Duquette, Sarah George, Erin Staffiere, Jen Steeves, Yori Thomas, Anna Wallack, Julie Pike, Kayla Waldron, Edward Speck and special appearances by Elyse Brown and Victoria Grinnings.

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Readings from poets featured in the anthology BreakBeat Poets vol 4: LatiNext —Malcom Friend, Diannely Antigua, and Jonathan Mendoza.

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Moderator: Safiya Sinclair

Format: This is a free, live, virtual event.

Q&A: Please direct questions to the authors and moderator with CrowdCast's "Ask a Question" button and not the chat box. Questions will be shared with the moderator, and the moderator will attempt to get to as many audience questions as possible toward the end of the session.

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Authors

Jake Skeets

Genya Turovskaya

Diannely Antigua

Aria Aber

Featured books

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers

The Breathing Body of This Thought

Ugly Music

Hard Damage

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.

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Dangerous Love: Desire & Obsession

Who:

Diannely Antigua

Jericho Brown

Malcolm Tariq

Erika Stevens

When:November 9 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Where:

Portland’5 Winningstad Theatre (Poetry Foundation Stage)
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97205

These poets confront the trauma of the past—the personal past and the shared past—while celebrating desire and love. Ugly Music, the debut collection from Diannely Antigua, explores reality, dream, trauma, and obsession, and how to create an identity informed by and in spite of the past. Jericho Brown’s The Tradition, longlisted for the National Book Award, details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal in poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma. Malcolm Tariq’s debut, Heed the Hollow, explores the concept of “the bottom” across blackness, sexuality, and the American South in poems that reckon with a lineage of trauma while searching for beauty and love. Moderated by Erika Stevens, poetry editor at Coffee House Press.

We proudly present our Lit Crawl Portland 2019 event, Our Words Are a Bridge: An Evening with The Rumpus, Corporeal Writing, and YesYes Books!

Where:
Coporeal Writing
510 SW 3rd Ave #101
Portland, OR 97204

With readings from Diannely Antigua, Jennine Capó Crucet, Steph Cha, Brandon Courtney, Ross Gay, Matt Hart, and T Kira Madden. Hosted by Rumpus Editor-in-Chief Marisa Siegel.

This event is free and open to the public! Original event artwork by Lisa Lee Herrick.

Join us for a reading by 2019 Poetry Festival features Diannely Antigua and Hyejung Kook, 5:00 PM at The Nines! Opening reading by Victoria Hudson. Free and open to the public.

For more Poetry Festival events, visit: https://www.openmouthreadings.com/2019-poetry-festival

DIANNELY ANTIGUA
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music was the winner of the YesYes Books Pamet River Prize. 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. 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.

More about Diannely at https://diannelyantigua.com/

HYEJUNG KOOK
Hyejung Kook's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, Half Mystic Radio, The Massachusetts Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Hyphen Magazine, and Pleiades. Other works include an essay in The Critical Flame and a chamber opera libretto. Hyejung was born in Seoul, Korea and now lives in Kansas with her husband and their two young children. She is a Fulbright grantee and a Kundiman fellow.

More about Hyejung at https://hyejungkook.tumblr.com/

VICTORIA HUDSON
Victoria Hudson is an MFA candidate and recipient of a Lily Peters Fellowship at the University of Arkansas. Her poems are published or forthcoming in jubilat, the Dunes Review, and Fogged Clarity. She is an Assistant Poetry Editor at the Arkansas International.

Poetic arts fest by Reality Hands + Pizza Pi Press
Featuring showcases from Peach Mag + Glow Worm Press
Featuring 2 days of readings and community building

Come meet, hang out with, and support artists in your community.

Both days begin with a book fair from 1-3.
Readings run from 3-9:30 on Saturday, 3-9:45 on Sunday
Party after on both days!

$10. Get tix at the door or at: http://www.realityhands.com/products/clouds-and-other-louds-ticket