Poetry Reading w/ Diannely Antigua

Join us for an inspiring poetry reading at the Gloucester Writers Center featuring the acclaimed Diannely Antigua. Diannely is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She has authored two poetry collections: Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019), winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024).
Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and selected for The Best of the Net Anthology. You can find her poems in publications such as Poem-a-Day, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, and The Adroit Journal. In 2022, Diannely was named the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, becoming the youngest and first person of color to hold the title.