Jan 19: PSNH Presents on Zoom – Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Through Poetry

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Date(s) - January 19, 2026
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Join Poetry Society of New Hampshire virtually as we celebrate and honor the legacy of Martin Luther King through poetry!

For the first half of this event, we will have special guests share / discuss poetry in celebration of this holiday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., including NH State Poet Laureate Jennifer Militello, former Portsmouth Poet Laureate Diannely Antigua, visual artist and poet Shanta Lee Honeycutt, Phillips Exeter Academy Professor and POL State Finals Judge Courtney D. Marshall, and Dover Literary Laureate, Shane Morin.

For the second half, we will have an open mic – inviting all to share a poem of their own or a poem they admire, that in some way relates to the social issues fought for by this incredibly important figure in our history.

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About our Special Guests:

Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen, named a finalist for the 2024 FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous books of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry London, and The Poetry Review (UK). Militello has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently teaches in the MFA program at New England College.

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, and elsewhere. From 2022-2024, she was 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.

Courtney D. Marshall  is a scholar of African-American literature and Black feminist theory. She teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy, and is currently teaching “Introduction to African-American Literature” and an author immersion course on Toni Morrison. At Exeter, she chaperone a spring break trip to the Legacy Sites in Alabama and serve on the Committee to Study Slavery and Its Legacy at Exeter (CSSLE). She is a volunteer with the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire’s historical marker committee.