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Read Free or Die
Nov
19

Read Free or Die

University of New Hampshire’s MFA program presents the “Read Free or Die” reading series!

Featuring writers Frances Cooke, Steph George, Andrew Kelly, Skylar Miklus, Gavin Pritchard, TJ Prizio, Radhika Sen, and Tabitha Soper!

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Read Free or Die
Sep
17

Read Free or Die

University of New Hampshire’s MFA program presents the first “Read Free or Die” reading of the semester on September 17th from 7-9pm at Auspicious Brew in Dover, NH! Readers to be announced…

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JAKE Presents: Halloween From Thebes
Oct
27

JAKE Presents: Halloween From Thebes

Our friends at JAKE are giving you a live reading show, a Halloween bash, and a listening party for The Mountain Goats’ new album “Jenny From Thebes” - all rolled into one!

From the editors of JAKE: The Anti-Literary Magazine

“JAKE is a huge fan of the quartet of Jon Wurster, Matt Douglas, Peter Hughes, and John Darnielle, and wants to celebrate that quartet's new album "Jenny From Thebes" with a listening party. But noticing the date, JAKE also feels like it's time for the spooky vibes of Halloween to take roost as well. And shit, he's a magazine for Anti-Literature, so he figures he should probably have some readings mixed in for good measure, too. Come join JAKE for an evening of merriment, drinks, music, and the best Anti-Literature around!”

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Diannely Antigua: The Writers Series @ UNH MFA Creative Writing
Oct
19

Diannely Antigua: The Writers Series @ UNH MFA Creative Writing

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The UNH MFA Creative Writing Program’s annual Visiting Writers’ Series - this month featuring poet Diannely Antigua!

Open to all for an evening of a live reading by our visiting writers, audience Q&A, and book signing.

More on Diannely Antigua

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 hosts the podcast “Bread & Poetry” and is currently the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, the youngest and first person of color to receive that title. For more information visit diannelyantigua.com

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