A Reading Revelry

114 1st Avenue South,Seattle WA 98104

09 March, 2023

Description

Join the Arkansas International and the Massachusetts Review for their 2023 AWP off-site reading, featuring Sarah Viren, Randall Mann, Kemi Alabi, and Diannely Antigua! Swing by for a drink, chat with our editors, and join in a celebration of great literary voices. Kemi Alabi is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their work appears in Poetry, The Atlantic, Best New Poets, Redivider as winner of the 2020 Beacon Street Prize, and elsewhere. Coeditor of The Echoing Ida Collection (Feminist Press), they live in Chicago, IL. 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 is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in 2024. She received her B.A. in English from UMass 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, including the Massachusetts Review. She resides in Portsmouth, NH, where she is the Poet Laureate and host of the podcast Bread & Poetry. Randall Mann is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Deal: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in May from Copper Canyon Press. He lives in San Francisco. Sarah Viren is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and teaches in the creative writing program at Arizona State University. She’s the author of the essay collection Mine, winner of the River Teeth Book Prize, and the forthcoming memoir To Name the Bigger Lie. Her work has been supported by an NEA Fellowship and a Kerouac House Residency and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in feature writing. She also translates fiction from Latin American and hosted and wrote a four-part narrative podcast called The Inbox, which was part of Pineapple Street Media's The 11th project.