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An ONLINE 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.
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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 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 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, NH, 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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