Poetry Reading: Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt

The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a>&nbsp;brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the&nbsp;<a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Diannely Antigua&nbsp;Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of the collections&nbsp;Ugly Music&nbsp;(YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of a 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/diannely-antigua">Whiting Award</a>, and&nbsp;Good Monster&nbsp;(Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She received her MFA at NYU and has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. From 2022-2024, she was the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. &nbsp;Stephanie Burt&nbsp;is a poet, literary critic, and professor. In 2012, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.”&nbsp;Burt grew up around Washington, DC and earned a BA from Harvard and PhD from Yale. Burt’s books include&nbsp;We Are Mermaids&nbsp;(2022),&nbsp;After Callimachus&nbsp;(2020),&nbsp;Advice from the Lights&nbsp;(2017),&nbsp;Belmont&nbsp;(2013),&nbsp;Parallel Play&nbsp;(2006), and&nbsp;Popular Music&nbsp;(1999). Burt’s works of criticism include&nbsp;The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them&nbsp;(2016);&nbsp;Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry&nbsp;(2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;&nbsp;The Art of the Sonnet,&nbsp;written with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=111636">David Mikics</a>&nbsp;(2010);&nbsp;The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence&nbsp;(2007);&nbsp;Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden&nbsp;(2005), with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hannah-brooks-motl">Hannah Brooks-Motl</a>;&nbsp;and&nbsp;Randall Jarrell and His Age&nbsp;(2002). Burt has&nbsp;taught at Macalester College and is now Professor of English at Harvard University. With special musical guest&nbsp;Todd Brunel.&nbsp;Brunel&nbsp;is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and sax player and the director of music at St Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH. He performs extensively as a classical and jazz musician.

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