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Diannely Antigua
On this episode, we break bread with host and poet laureate of your hearts Diannely Antigua and talk about death-bed breads, the end of her laureateship term, and what's next for the podcast and her poetry. Johnathan Riley, former guest from Episode 1, conducts the interview.
Guest: Diannely Antigua, IG: @nellfell13, Twitter: @nellfell13, Website: www.diannelyantigua.com, Books: Good Monster, Ugly Music
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She received her BA 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, The American Poetry Review, Washington Square Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. In 2022, she was proclaimed the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. In 2023, she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship to launch The Bread & Poetry Project, and in 2024, she was awarded an Excellence in Artistry Award from Black Lives Matter New Hampshire. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. She hosts the podcast Bread & Poetry which seeks to make poetry accessible to all in a way that nourishes the soul.
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with poet, professor, and disgruntled Lakers fan John Murillo and talk about no-knead bread, lob passes, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
Guest: John Murillo, Website: www.johnmurillo.com, Book: Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
Bio: John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, Up Jump the Boogie and Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. His honors include the 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the TS Eliot Foundation, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, two Pushcart Prizes, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017, 2019, and 2020. He is an associate professor of English at Wesleyan University.
Poem(s) discussed: "Slam, Dunk, & Hook" by Yusef Komunyakaa and "Practicing Fade-Aways" by John Murillo
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with poet, educator, and foodie Carly Joy Miller and talk about cinnamon swirl bread, allusions, and Sandra Lim.
Guest: Carly Joy Miller, IG: @thecarlyjoy, Twitter: @carlyjoymiller, Website:https://www.carlyjoymiller.com/ , Substack: https://carlyjoymiller.substack.com/, Book: Ceremonial by Carly Joy Miller, Like a Beast by Carly Joy Miller
Bio: Carly Joy Miller is the author of Ceremonial (Orison Books, 2018), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2017 Orison Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Like a Beast (Anhinga Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Academy of American Poets’ Poem a Day, The Laurel Review, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and elsewhere. A digital content writer and editor, Carly also teaches in The Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn.
Poem(s) discussed: "Spinoza Says" by Sandra Lim & "Adoration Fable" by Carly Joy Miller
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
This Special Episode is a live recording of the event Love & Resistance: Poetry & Conversation, Latinx Voices that took place on el Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), November 2, 2023. The event was in collaboration with NH PANTHER whose mission is to help end racism and systemic biases through community engagement, direct mutual aid, education and curriculum reform, and youth empowerment programming. I sat down with Ben Bacote, Co-Founder and Director of NH PANTHER. We talked about poetry and how it resonated both historically and personally to the Latinx experience. Throughout the conversation we reference a slideshow that’s available here. Although not included in the episode, local artist and host Victoria Carrington opened up the event with an informative and personal account of Día de los Muertos. We were co-sponsored by local Mexican restaurant Vida Cantina who provided both the venue and delicious food for the evening. DJ MAM was spinning tunes all night. This was truly a community event. We hope you enjoy!
Guest: Ben Bacote & NH PANTHER, IG: @nhpanthers, Website: https://nhpanther.org
Victoria Carrington: @lilacandaspen
DJ MAM: @djmam19
Vida Cantina: @vidacantinanh
Event playlist on Spotify
Poem(s) discussed: "Who Understands Me but Me" by Jimmy Santiago Baca, "The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual" by Ada Límon, "The Latin Deli: an Ars Poetica" by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and "Like You" by Roque Dalton
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with poet Fariha Róisín and talk about manna, seeking truth, and Refaat Alareer.
Guest: Fariha Róisín, IG: @fariha_roisin, Website: www.fariharoisin.com, Substack: fariharoisin.substack.com, Book: Survival Takes a Wild Imagination
Bio: Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities. Róisín has published works, How To Cure A Ghost, Like A Bird, Who Is Wellness For? An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind. Her second book of poetry, Survival Takes A Wild Imagination came out in October, 2023.
Poem(s) discussed: "'I am You': A Poem from Gaza to Israel" by Refaat Alareer & "An Ode to Baby Fa" by Fariha Róisín
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with poet, father, and chef extraordinaire Nathan McClain and talk about english muffins, memory, and John Murillo.
Guest: Nathan McClain, IG: @nathanhmcclain, Twitter: @nathanhmcclain, Website: nathanmcclain.com, Book: Previously Owned
Bio: Nathan McClain (he/him) is the author of Previously Owned (2022), longlisted for the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award, and Scale (2017), both from Four Way Books. A Cave Canem fellow, Nathan teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.
Poem(s) discussed: "Mercy, Mercy Me" by John Murillo & "Multiple Choice" by Nathan McClain
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with poet Olatunde Osinaike and talk about puff puff, doo-wop, and Amaud Jamal Johnson.
Guest: Olatunde Osinaike, IG: @tundelasoul, Twitter: @tundelasoul, Website: olatundeosinaike.com, Book: Tender Headed
Bio: Originally from the West Side of Chicago, Olatunde Osinaike (he/him) is a Nigerian-American poet, essayist, and software developer. He is the author of Tender Headed, winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, and forthcoming this December from Akashic Books. His work has received fellowships and support from Poets & Writers, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University. He lives in Atlanta with his dearest and would like to thank you.
Poem(s) discussed: "Doo-Wop" by Amaud Jamal Johnson & "Sometimes I Forget to Say Grace" by Olatunde Osinaike
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with poet Sarah Audsley and talk about chapati, dictionary poems, and Tiana Nobile.
Guest: Sarah Audsley, IG: @saudsley, Twitter: @saudsleypoet, Website: https://sarahaudsley.com/, Book: Landlock X
Bio: Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.
Poem(s) discussed: "/ˈmīɡrənt/" by Tiana Nobile and "When My Mother Returns as X" by Sarah Audsley
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
On this episode, we break bread with Tariq Luthun, award-winning poet and community organizer. We talk about a "community of breads," freedom, and Safia Elhillo. (Make sure to listen to the blooper at the end!)
Guest: Tariq Luthun, IG: @tariqpoems, Twitter: @tariqpoems, Website: tariqpoetry.com, Book: How the Water Holds Me
Bio: Tariq Luthun is a Detroit-born, Dearborn-raised community organizer, data consultant, and Emmy Award-winning poet. The son of Palestinian Muslim immigrants from Gaza, he was named a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow by the Poetry Foundation, and is a Kresge Arts in Detroit fellow. Luthun earned his MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and currently serves as a board member of The Offing Literary Magazine. His first collection of poetry, How the Water Holds Me, was named Editors’ Selection by Bull City Press and is available now.
Poem(s) discussed: "Vocabulary" by Safia Elhillo & "I Felt Nothing" by Tariq Luthun
Podcast Website: https://bread-poetry.simplecast.com
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Production: Kula Production Company
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored in part by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This podcast is also sponsored in part by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
Bonus Slice is a little offering, an appetizer if you will, of delectable bonus content related to previous episodes, ranging from poems read by former guests, after the interview follow-ups, outtakes, and more. On this Bonus Slice, Maya Williams from Episode #9: Oat Bread & Jonah Poems reads "Samson & Suicide" from their debut poetry collection Judas & Suicide. Bon a petit!
Guest: Maya Williams, IG: @emmdubb16, Twitter: @emmdubb16, Website: www.mayawilliamspoet.com
Bio: Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently the seventh poet laureate of Portland, Maine. Ey has published poems in venues such as The Portland Press Herald, The Cortland Review, FreezeRay, Indianapolis Review, glitterMOB, and more. Their first poetry collection Judas & Suicide will be released via Game Over Books May 30th 2023; their second poetry collection Refused a Second Date will be released via Harbor Editions October 5th, 2023. Maya was one of three artists of color selected to represent Maine in The Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America series in 2020, and was listed as one of The Advocate’s Champions of Pride in 2022. Follow more of her work, and invite her to read or facilitate a workshop, at mayawilliamspoet.com.
Poem: "Samson & Suicide" by Maya Williams
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
Bonus Slice is a little offering, an appetizer if you will, of delectable bonus content related to previous episodes, ranging from poems read by former guests, after the interview follow-ups, outtakes, and more. On this Bonus Slice, Myles Burr from Episode #3: Pumpernickel & Epistolaries performs the poem “Valid Trauma Scene Waste Management Practitioner/Rubbernecking: Or There’s Nothing To See Here” from his upcoming EPwith The Last Strawstitled Futuristic Dread And Excitement, set to be released on all streaming platforms July 26, 2023 at midnight. If you’re local to the Portsmouth, NH area come watch the release show live at Press Room on the 26th at 7PM.
Guest: Myles Burr, IG: @mylesburr, Website: www.mylesburr.com
Bio: Myles Burr is an artist based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Specializing in freeform poetry, he takes readers through an abstract overview of his personal life. Burr hosts various readings and beat poetry events in the Seacoast Area. He is an administrator/board member of The Portland Poets Society (based in Portland, Maine.) He is the author of Therapy Is Expensive So I Wrote This Book Instead, and has been published in three anthologies, You, Me, & The End of The World, The Best F-ing Poets You’ve Never Heard Of, and UWA Poetry Review Issue 1. All four titles were released by the publishing house Underground Writers Association, based out of Portland, ME. Burr has also self-published five underground chapbooks: Convolutions Of An Unkempt Mind, It’s Fine. I’m Fine., Ataraxia Volume 1, Sea Breezes, and most recently, A Buffoon In Pantomime. Growing up in the Greater Seacoast Area has allowed him to find inspiration in the drastic change of seasons both visually and viscerally. There is beauty in every corner of the world, but what fascinates Myles Burr most of all is people and the human experience.
Poem: “Valid Trauma Scene Waste Management Practitioner/Rubbernecking: Or There’s Nothing To See Here” by Myles Burr, accompanied by The Last Straws
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On part two of this two-part episode, we break bread with host and poet laureate of your hearts, Diannely Antigua, and talk about ars poetica and Dorothea Lasky. Johnathan Riley, former guest from Episode 1, conducts the interview.
Guest: Diannely Antigua, IG: @nellfell13, Twitter: @nellfell13, Website: www.diannelyantigua.com, Book: Ugly Music
Bio: 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.
Poem(s) discussed: "Ars Poetica" by Dorothea Lasky and "Diary Entry #28: Ars Poetica" by Diannely Antigua
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
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On part one of this two-part episode, we break bread with host and poet laureate of your hearts Diannely Antigua and talk about casabe, the Dominican Republic, and what the first year of being poet laureate has been like. Johnathan Riley, former guest from Episode 1, conducts the interview.
Guest: Diannely Antigua, IG: @nellfell13, Twitter: @nellfell13, Website: www.diannelyantigua.com, Book: Ugly Music
Bio: 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.
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this two-part episode, we break bread with dynamic poetry duo Sara Deniz Akant and Adrienne Raphel and talk about braided breads, twin language, and the complexity of memory.
Guest 1: Sara Deniz Akant, IG: @sdenizakant, Twitter: @sdenizakant, Website: https://www.saradenizakant.com/
Bio: Sara Deniz Akant is the author of three books – most recently, Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022), which was a New York Times and Boston Globe book of the year – as well as Babette (Rescue Press 2015), and Parades (Omnidawn 2014). She teaches poetry as a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University, and co-curates the Kan Yama Kan reading series in Brooklyn. @kan.yama.kan.bk
Guest 1: Adrienne Raphel, IG: @adrienne.raphel, Twitter: @adrienneraphel, Website: https://www.adrienneraphel.com/
Bio: Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Penguin Press, 2020), and the poetry collections Our Dark Academia (Rescue Press, 2022) and What Was It For (Rescue Press, 2017). Raphel has taught in the Princeton Writing Program and the Berlin Writers' Workshop, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective.
Poem(s) discussed: "And When It Rained" by Sara Deniz Akant & "Trebek No. 5" by Adrienne Raphel
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this two-part episode, we break bread with dynamic poetry duo Sara Deniz Akant and Adrienne Raphel and talk about braided breads, twin language, and the complexity of memory.
Guest 1: Sara Deniz Akant, IG: @sdenizakant, Twitter: @sdenizakant, Website: https://www.saradenizakant.com/
Bio: Sara Deniz Akant is the author of three books – most recently, Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022), which was a New York Times and Boston Globe book of the year – as well as Babette (Rescue Press 2015), and Parades (Omnidawn 2014). She teaches poetry as a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University, and co-curates the Kan Yama Kan reading series in Brooklyn. @kan.yama.kan.bk
Guest 1: Adrienne Raphel, IG: @adrienne.raphel, Twitter: @adrienneraphel, Website: https://www.adrienneraphel.com/
Bio: Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them (Penguin Press, 2020), and the poetry collections Our Dark Academia (Rescue Press, 2022) and What Was It For (Rescue Press, 2017). Raphel has taught in the Princeton Writing Program and the Berlin Writers' Workshop, and she serves as a mentor with the Periplus collective.
Poem(s) discussed: "And When It Rained" by Sara Deniz Akant & "Trebek No. 5" by Adrienne Raphel
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with poet and musician Alexandria Hall and talk about biscuits, improv, and Catherine Barnett.
Guest: Alexandria Hall, IG: @alexandriakhall, Twitter: @sadacid_, Website: https://www.alexandria-hall.com, Book: Field Music
Bio: Alexandria Hall is the author of Field Music (Ecco, 2020), a winner of the National Poetry Series. She holds an MFA from NYU and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at USC. She is a founding editor of tele-. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Bennington Review, LARB Quarterly Journal, and Brink, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.
Poem(s) discussed: "The Sky Flashes" by Catherine Barnett and "Note" by Alexandria Hall
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
This Special Interview Episode is a live recording of the event Love & Resistance: Poetry & Conversation. The event was in collaboration with NH PANTHER whose mission is to help end racism and systemic biases through community engagement, direct mutual aid, education and curriculum reform, and youth empowerment programming. I sat down with Ben Bacote, Co-Founder and Director of NH PANTHER. We talked about poetry and how it resonated both historically and personally to the Black experience. Throughout the conversation we reference a slideshow that’s available here. We were hosted by the Center of Diversity, Equity and Social Justice at Plymouth State University on February 16th, 2023.
Guest: Ben Bacote, IG: @nhpanthers, Website: https://nhpanther.org
Bio: Ben Bacote is a queer, black, teacher, writer, and dad living in Campton, NH. He teaches Humanities at Waterville Valley Academy, writes for Concord Monitor’s 3-Minute Civics column, and is the proud parent of three kids. He is deeply engaged with his students and strives to create a space in which they can learn to think critically and to develop their own voices. Originally from North Carolina, Ben fell in love with New Hampshire when he moved here for a time as a teenager, and so returned to attend Plymouth State University, where he earned his BA. In 2019, he graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with an MA in English. Then, in the spring of 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, he followed his eldest child onto the town common to protest; this inspired the founding of NH PANTHERs. He hopes to help create widespread, systemic change by engaging his community at the local level and following the lead of today’s youth.
Poem(s) discussed: "On Being Brought to America" by Phillis Wheatley, "In the Country Where My Parents Met in a Taxicab" by Diannely Antigua, "won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton, and "Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley" by June Jordan
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with educator and "Poet of the River" Matt Miller and talk about pita bread, "the next time through," and Kate Hanson Foster.
Guest: Matt Miller, IG: @littoralpoet, Twitter: @mattmiller89, Website: http://mattwmiller.com
Bio: Matt W. Miller (he/his) is the author of Tender the River (Texas Review Press), shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award, and a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award, the New Hampshire Poetry Society Book Award, and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award. Other books include The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus (University of North Texas Press), selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner, and Cameo Diner: Poems (Loom). He has published work previously in Narrative, Rhino Poetry, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Southwest Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Adroit Journal, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and was a winner of Nimrod International's Pablo Neruda Prize, the Poetry by The Sea Sonnet Sequence Contest, the River Styx Micro-fiction Prize, and the Iron Horse Review's Trifecta Poetry Prize. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches English, coaches football, and coordinates the Assembly Program at Phillips Exeter Academy in coastal New Hampshire.
Poem(s) discussed: "The Birds" by Kate Hanson Foster and "Next Time Through" by Matt Miller
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with baker and beloved tea time friend Teddy Klemarczyk and talk about focaccia, the body, and Anna Swir.
Guest: Teddy Klemarczyk, IG: @regularsizedrat
Bio: Teddy Klemarczyk is a baker by day, fledgling poet by night, and occasional local model in between it all. An advocate for body neutrality and acceptance of the self, they find beauty and inspiration in body imagery, touch, and the natural world. She’s found contentment in her work as a baker at local Kittery haunt Lil’s Cafe, where you can find her slinging crullers and other treats. A lover of all things comfort, her ideal day would be reading by the creek and swinging in a hammock in the hazy green heat of summertime, wine optional (but highly recommended.)
Poem(s) discussed: "Large Intestine" by Anna Swir and "Sea Legs" by Teddy Klemarczyk
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with poet and penpal Bob Sykora and talk about everything bagels, "leaning into softness," and Joyce Peseroff.
Guest: Bob Sykora, IG: @bob_sykora_, Twitter: @bob_sykora_, Website: bobsykora.com
Bio: Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016). A graduate of the UMass Boston MFA program, he teaches at community college, serves as an editor for Garden Party Collective, and co-hosts The Line Break podcast.
Poem(s) discussed: "The Hardness Scale" by Joyce Peseroff and "Crying on the Exercise Bike While Watching The Great British Bakeoff, February 2021" by Bob Sykora
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with poet and girl-dad Joshua Burton and talk about Hawaiian rolls, giving grace, and Hayan Charara.
Guest: Joshua Burton, IG: @joshuaburton23, Twitter: @joshuaburton23, Website: www.joshuaburtonpoet.com
Bio: Joshua Burton is a poet and educator from Houston, TX and received his MFA in poetry at Syracuse University. He is a 2019 Tin House Winter Workshop Scholar and is a 2019 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics fellowship finalist. His work can be found in Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Conduit, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Grist, and Indiana Review. His first chapbook is currently out with Ethel Press and his debut poetry collection is forthcoming in the spring of 2023 with the University of Wisconsin Press.
Poem(s) discussed: "Mother and Daughter" by Hayan Charara and "Giving Laura Grace" by Joshua Burton
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with 7th Poet Laureate of Portland, Maine: Maya Williams. We talk about oat bread, suicide prevention awareness, and Raych Jackson.
Guest: Maya Williams, IG: @emmdubb16, Twitter: @emmdubb16, Website: www.mayawilliamspoet.com
Bio: Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who is currently the seventh poet laureate of Portland, Maine. Ey has published poems in venues such as The Portland Press Herald, The Cortland Review, FreezeRay, Indianapolis Review, glitterMOB, and more. Their first poetry collection Judas & Suicide will be released via Game Over Books May 30th 2023; their second poetry collection Refused a Second Date will be released via Harbor Editions October 5th, 2023. Maya was one of three artists of color selected to represent Maine in The Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America series in 2020, and was listed as one of The Advocate’s Champions of Pride in 2022. Follow more of her work, and invite her to read or facilitate a workshop, at mayawilliamspoet.com.
Poems discussed: "Jonah Was Trapped Before He Met the Fish" by Raych Jackson and "Jonah, Suicide, & GOD Doesn’t Give You ANY More Than YOU CAN HANDLE" by Maya Williams
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with two very special poet friends: Jess Rizkallah and John-Francis Quiñonez. We talk about tortillas, tarot, and traveling in other people's dreams.
Guest # 1: Jess Rizkallah, Book: the magic my body becomes, IG: @jessriz.art, Twitter: @jessriz, Website: www.jessrizkallah.com
Bio:Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer and illustrator. Her book the magic my body becomes was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award and won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize as awarded by the Radius of Arab-American Writers and University of Arkansas Press. She is a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow.
Guest #2: John-Francis Quiñonez, Book: Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems after Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and others), IG: @q_buckaroo, Twitter: @q_buckaroo, Website: www.johnfrancisquinonez.com
Bio: John-Francis Quiñonez or Q (They/Them) is a Desert Flower & Current Resident of Providence, RI/a Queer Writer & Multimedia Artist/ Maker of ice creams & tamales/House Manager of the Columbus Theatre/Current Resident of the Queer.Archive.Work. project/has a Forthcoming collection of Poems with Write Bloody Publishing (‘22) entitled Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems After Kate Bush’s "Hounds of Love" & Others). You can find their work in Pigeon Pages, Ours Poetica, Voicemail Poems, Slamfind, Counterclock, Maps for Teeth, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and as part of a playing card deck with Game Over Books.
Poems discussed: "qtine thoughts (w/ a line from Psych lol)" by Jessica Rizkallah and "Re: Waking the Witch" by John-Francis Quiñonez
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with two very special poet friends: Jess Rizkallah and John-Francis Quiñonez. We talk about tortillas, tarot, and traveling in other people's dreams.
Guest # 1: Jess Rizkallah, Book: the magic my body becomes, IG: @jessriz.art, Twitter: @jessriz, Website: www.jessrizkallah.com
Bio:Jess Rizkallah is a Lebanese-American writer and illustrator. Her book the magic my body becomes was a finalist for The Believer Poetry Award and won the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize as awarded by the Radius of Arab-American Writers and University of Arkansas Press. She is a 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow.
Guest #2: John-Francis Quiñonez, Book: Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems after Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and others), IG: @q_buckaroo, Twitter: @q_buckaroo, Website: www.johnfrancisquinonez.com
Bio: John-Francis Quiñonez or Q (They/Them) is a Desert Flower & Current Resident of Providence, RI/a Queer Writer & Multimedia Artist/ Maker of ice creams & tamales/House Manager of the Columbus Theatre/Current Resident of the Queer.Archive.Work. project/has a Forthcoming collection of Poems with Write Bloody Publishing (‘22) entitled Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems After Kate Bush’s "Hounds of Love" & Others). You can find their work in Pigeon Pages, Ours Poetica, Voicemail Poems, Slamfind, Counterclock, Maps for Teeth, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, and as part of a playing card deck with Game Over Books.
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with writer and educator Jake Baver, and talk about sourdough, nature "keeping the score," and Natasha Rao.
Guest: Jake Baver
Bio: Jake Baver operates a Writing Center for Oyster River High School. He is an unpublished writer of unfinished projects and he likes turtles.
Poems discussed: "Earth Memory" by Natasha Rao and "For Poppy Pops" by Jake Baver
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with poet and crafty sad girl Lauren WB Vermette and talk about "good. bread.", mental illness, and Shira Erlichman.
Guest: Lauren WB Vermette, Book: And the Form Falls Away, IG: @wbvermette
Bio: Lauren WB Vermette is an ink-slinger who makes her home in Dover, NH. Her work has appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Covid Spring Anthology, Edge, Global Poemic, Good Fat Zine, Hole in the Head Review, Lunation: An Anthology of Women Poets, Sledgehammer, Rat’s Ass Review Journal, and The Poets’ Touchstone. Her first collection of poetry, And The Form Falls Away (2018), was published by Bee Monk Press.
Poems discussed: "Odes to Lithium #140: Natural" by Shira Erlichman and "Umbilicus" by Lauren WB Vermette
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with former Poet Laureate of Portsmouth Mike Nelson and talk about garlic bread, love, and Li Young Lee.
Guest: Mike Nelson, IG: space.bee_, Website: www.hivepoetry.com
Bio: Mike grew up in New Hampshire and has been hanging around the poetry scene of Portsmouth and the Seacoast for the last twenty years. He has been participating in Beat Night for eighteen of its twenty three years and hosting and organizing it for the last eight. Mike has three collections of poetry and is working on a fourth. Mike was the 11th poet laureate of Portsmouth from 2017 to 2019 and is currently the chair of the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. He is also on the board of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, the founder of Hive Poetry Project, Bee Monk Press, and Space Bee Studio.
Poems discussed: "Trading for Heaven" by Li Young Lee and "In the Doorway" by Mike Nelson
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with poet and performer Myles Burr and talk about pumpernickel, cheese danish, and Raymond Carver. (Listen all the way til the end for some bloopers!)
Guest: Myles Burr, IG: @mylesburr, Website: www.mylesburr.com
Bio: Myles Burr is an artist based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Specializing in freeform poetry, he takes readers through an abstract overview of his personal life. Burr hosts various readings and beat poetry events in the Seacoast Area. He is an administrator/board member of The Portland Poets Society (based in Portland, Maine.) He is the author of Therapy Is Expensive So I Wrote This Book Instead, and has been published in three anthologies, You, Me, & The End of The World, The Best F-ing Poets You’ve Never Heard Of, and UWA Poetry Review Issue 1. All four titles were released by the publishing house Underground Writers Association, based out of Portland, ME. Burr has also self-published five underground chapbooks: Convolutions Of An Unkempt Mind, It’s Fine. I’m Fine., Ataraxia Volume 1, Sea Breezes, and most recently, A Buffoon In Pantomime. Growing up in the Greater Seacoast Area has allowed him to find inspiration in the drastic change of seasons both visually and viscerally. There is beauty in every corner of the world, but what fascinates Myles Burr most of all is people and the human experience.
Poems discussed: "The Old Days" by Raymond Carver and "54" by Myles Burr
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
Host Diannely Antigua breaks bread with Kathy and Larry of Portsmouth Community Radio at WSCA 10.61 FM recorded on May 26, 2022, for their show Seacoast Currents. We talk about the genesis of the podcast Bread & Poetry, hear a few poems, and even get a little political.
Bio: 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. She received her BA 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 resides in Portsmouth, NH, where she is the Poet Laureate.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
Poems read: "Alabanza," "Re-Education," "Training," and "Anniversary" by Diannely Antigua
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
On this episode, we break bread with poet Johnathan Riley and talk about baguettes, cheesy bread, and of course, John Ashbery.
Guest: Johnathan Riley, Instagram @j.j.riley, Twitter @j_j_riley
Bio: Johnathan Riley is from the coast of Maine. When he’s not performing his duties as an ordained minister, and local bartender, he is teaching and writing poetry at the University of New Hampshire, where he is completing his MFA and is the Poetry Editor for Barnstorm Literary Journal. In 2018 Riley was the recipient of Florida State University's Poetry Literati Award and, most recently, was awarded the Dick Shea Memorial Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Kudzu Review, Vellichor Magazine, and Barnstorm but if you want to read anything more than that, you'll have to email his mother. He currently lives in Dover, NH.
Poems discussed: "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery and "Long Look Back" by Johnathan Riley
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
To find an archive of the Gluten Free Segment: Writing Prompts, click here.
To submit poems inspired by Bread & Poetry to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming anthology, please email pplpsubmissions@gmail.com or submit using the form here.
For more information about Diannely Antigua, website: www.diannelyantigua.com and IG: @nellfell13.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate.
Here is a little appetizer of what is to come on the new podcast Bread & Poetry, a podcast about poetry for everyone, hosted by Diannely Antigua, award-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Instagram: @breadandpoetrypodcast
Twitter: @breadpoetrypod
Photo Credit: Najee Brown @authoredby
Theme Music: Stu Dias @stuartdiasplaysmusicsometimes
For more information about Diannely Antigua, please visit www.diannelyantigua.com.
This podcast is sponsored by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Please consider donating to this volunteer-run, non-profit organization by visiting www.pplpnh.org/donate