The queens talk music, monsters, and masturbation with Diannely Antigua.

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Diannely Antigu 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 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.

Diannely reads "Diary Entry # 16 About Using My Body" from Good Monster. The poem was originally published in Muzzle Magazine and you can read it here.

Two poems Diannely mentions but doesn't read:
"Praise to the Boys" in the Paris Review
&
"Chronically" in Pangyrus.

You can read the entire Raque Dalton poem "Like You" ("Como Tú") translated by Jack Hirschman here.

Go here to listen to Diannely read poems and be interviewed on Was I in a Cult

Read a rave review of Ugly Music in Muzzle Magazine.

Watch Diannely tell stories and read in the Creative Mornings  series (~25 min).

Here's another terrific recording of Diannely Antigua reading at City of Asylum for "Latinx and Proud" series (~15 min).