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Poetry Reading: Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt
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The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival 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 New England Poetry Club.
Diannely Antigua Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of the collections Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019),
which was the winner of a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (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.
Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. In 2012, the New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” Burt grew up around Washington, DC and earned a BA from Harvard and PhD from Yale. Burt’s books include We Are Mermaids (2022), After Callimachus (2020), Advice from the Lights (2017), Belmont (2013), Parallel Play (2006), and Popular Music (1999).
Burt’s works of criticism include The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016); Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Art of the Sonnet, written with David Mikics (2010); The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence (2007); Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (2005), with Hannah Brooks-Motl; and Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002).
Burt has taught at Macalester College and is now Professor of English at Harvard University.
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Diannely Antigua by Beowulf Sheehan