IN-PERSON | Third Thursdays Poetry: Amy M. Alvarez, Octavio González, Anthony DiPietro, & Diannely Antigua

In person at Brookline Booksmith! Join us for an evening of poetry with Amy M. Alvarez, Octavio González, Anthony DiPietro, & Diannely Antigua.

This event is part of Third Thursdays Poetry, a monthly reading series at Brookline Booksmith.

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Third Thursdays Poetry: June

Amy M. Alvarez is the author of the poetry collection Makeshift Altar (2024) and the co-editor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology (2023). Selected as one of 2022’s Best New Poets, her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Foundation, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, the Virginia Creative Arts Center, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. Amy was born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents. She has taught at high schools in the Bronx, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts, and at West Virginia University. She currently teaches at Boston College.

Octavio R. González is the Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities, in the Department of English and Creative Writing. His poetry and creativenonfiction appear in Puerto Del Sol, Zócalo Public Square, Lambda Literary, The Latino Book Review, The Arlington Literary Journal, OCHO, Anomaly, HIV Here and Now, La Guagua Poetry Anthology, and La Casita Grande Salon. Poems from Limerence were finalists and long-listed for the Oscar Wilde Poetry Award (2021) and Palette Poetry’s “Love & Eros” Prize (2022). His first poetry collection, The Book of Ours, was a selection of the Letras Latinas chapbook series at the University of Notre Dame (2009). Limerence is his first full-length collection, part of the Queer Mojo series at Rebel Satori Press (2023). González speaks and recites at venues far and wide, including the Bryant Park and KGB Bar in NYC, Fabulosa Books in S.F., the Suzy Newhouse Humanities Center at Wellesley, NPR’s WBUR station, the BlogTalk radio show Quintessential Listening, and Ashoka University in New Delhi.

Anthony DiPietro is a gay sex poet and arts administrator originally from Providence, Rhode Island. He has lived throughout New England and in California, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now deputy director of Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, he resides in Worcester, MA. He composed his chapbook And Walk Through (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021) on a typewriter during the pandemic lockdowns. kiss & release (Unsolicited Press, 2024) is his debut collection.

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 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.