Diannely Antigua named 13th Portsmouth poet laureate, vows to 'uplift marginalized voices' Jane Murphy Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH — Diannely Antigua is the 13th poet laureate of Portsmouth. She is the youngest and the first person of color chosen to be the city's...
Events
A Bridge to Japan: A Poetry Broadside Contest
A Bridge to Japan: A Poetry Broadside Contest Presented by the Portsmouth (NH) Poet Laureate Program We are pleased to offer a digital poetry broadside contest. Final judging will be performed by poet and translator Patrick Donnelly. Winning entries will be awarded...
7th Annual Youth Hoot on January 9th, 2020!
It's the 7th Annual Youth Hoot! Students from local schools will join us as our January Featured Readers. If you’ve attended our Youth Hoot previously, you have seen and heard outstanding young poets. We hope that you will join us in celebrating the young voices of...
December Hoot: Carand Burnet and Jim Rioux at the Roundabout Diner & Lounge (December 4th)
Join us at the Roundabout Diner & Lounge for December’s Hoot, featuring poets Carand Burnet and Jim Rioux! (Wednesday, Dec. 4th, 7pm-9pm) Jim Rioux‘s work has been published in such journals as Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Five Points, and The Café...
November Hoot: UNH MFA Poets Casey Lynn Roland and Anna Ohara at Portsmouth Public Library (Wednesday, Nov. 6th)
Join us in the Levenson Room at Portsmouth Public Library for November's Hoot, featuring UNH MFA Poets Casey Lynn Roland and Anna Ohara! (Wednesday, Nov. 6th, 7pm-9pm) Casey Lynn Roland is a second year graduate student at the University of New Hampshire, pursuing an...
CANCELED- October Hoot: Andrew Merton and Jim Rioux
This event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances, we are hoping to reschedule so please check back!-PPLP Andrew Merton has been a reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe. His nonfiction has appeared in publications...
Sept. Hoot: Ft. Robert Carr and John Burroughs
Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published in 2016 by Indolent Books and The Unbuttoned Eye, a full-length 2019 collection from 3: A Taos Press. Among other publications his poetry appears in the American Journal of Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard...
June Hoot: Ft. Rachel Contreni Flynn and Fred Marchant
Rachel Contreni Flynn is the the co-editor of Beloit Poetry, Journaland, the author of two award-winning full-length poetry collections, Ice, Mouth, Song (Tupelo Press 2005) and Tongue (Red Hen Press 2010) as well as a chapbook, Haywire (Bright Hill Press 2009). In...
May 1st Hoot featuring Incoming and Outgoing Poets Laureate
Join us in saying goodbye to Mike Nelson and welcoming our 12th Poet Laureate, Tammi Truax!
April 3rd Hoot featuring David Surette and Mercy Carbonell
David R. Surette’s new book of poetry is Malden, selected and new poems that feature his hometown Malden, Massachusetts. He is the author of five other collections includng Stable which was named an Honor Book at the 2016 Massachusetts Book Awards. His poems are...
Lunation Book Release
Celebrate International Women's Day with the Book Release of Lunation: A Good Fat Anthology of 114 Women Poets. Lunation is an epic gathering of women poets from the seacoast and beyond in one fierce and fiery publication six months in the making and culminating with...
March 6th Hoot featuring Cassandra de Alba and Alice Radin
Cassandra de Alba is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Underblong, Big Lucks, and Smoking Glue Gun, among other publications. Her chapbooks habitats(Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the...