Listen to the new episode of The Bread & Poetry podcast with your host, poet laureate of Portsmouth Diannely Antigua. This time Diannely interviews Mike Nelson. Mike grew up in New Hampshire and has been hanging around the poetry scene of Portsmouth and the...
Poet Laureate’s Corner
Bread & Poetry podcast interview with Myles Burr
In this episode Diannely talks to mover and shaker of poetry in Portsmouth, Myles Burr. Myles Burr is a writer, poet, and vocalist from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His style is mainly freeform and highly autobiographical. He dives deeply into the inner conflict of...
Kathy and Larry Interview Diannely on WSCA
Kathy and Larry on WSCA's show Seacoast Currents interview Diannely Antigua. Listen here! link to source on WSCA
1st episode of Bread & Poetry Podcast with Jonathan Riley
Check out the first episode of the Bread and Poetry Podcast hosted by poet laureate Diannely Antigua with her guest Jonathan Riley. Johnathan Riley is from the coast of Maine. When he’s not performing his duties as an ordained minister, and local bartender, he is...
The Bread and Poetry Podcast with Diannely Antigua!
We are so excited for Diannely's first project to get started with her Bread and Poetry Podcast! Diannely will be interviewing poets and bread makers and folks of all kinds in her mission to bring poetry (and bread) to everyone. Listen to the trailer on Simplecast or...
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...
Accepting Nominations!
The PPLP Board is now accepting nominations for our next Poet Laureate for 2019-2021! • Nominees for 2019 – 20 21 should live in Portsmouth, Dover, Durham, Eliot, Greenland, Kittery, Madbury, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Rye, or Stratham...
Poets in the Park
Join us at Prescott Park Arts Festival this summer for Poets in the Park: Women Reading Women. We're excited about this lineup, and we hope you are, too!
Induction Ceremony for Mike Nelson
https://youtu.be/6YQ6BQJIG0Y
Portsmouth’s 11th Poet Laureate: Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson of Portsmouth, NH, is the 11th Portsmouth Poet Laureate. Nelson was named at a “passing of the quill” ceremony during the April 3 meeting of the Portsmouth City Council at City Hall in Portsmouth. Nelson, who grew up in New Hampshire, cut his poetry teeth...
Poet Laureate Nominations Are Now Closed
Thank you to all who submitted nominations for consideration. Join us at the Portsmouth City Council meeting Monday, April 3 at 7 pm for the announcement of our next Poet Laureate!
Call for nominations!
Questions about nominating guidelines? Please see our information sheet.




