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Longfellow Summer Arts Festival with Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt
The NEPC’s summer season at the Longfellow House continues with a unique pairing of dynamic poets! Join us for the second event in our We (too) The People series. This afternoon’s event includes special musical guest Todd Brunel on bass clarinet, reinterpreting American musical themes in a 21st century context.
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.
Todd Brunel is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and sax player and the director of music at St Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH. He performs extensively as a classical and jazz musician.
If you’re not able to attend in person, you can watch online! Register here.
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. For directions, parking, and accessibility information, see the Festival page.
In the event of inclement weather, the reading will be held indoors.