Diannely Antigua — Another Poem about God, but Really It’s about Me

<p>“You would’ve made a lousy nun.” The narrator of Diannely Antigua’s “Another Poem about God, but Really It’s about Me” overhears these words, and they jolt her into contrasting her life experience with the limited archetypes offered by her church — good daughter, good sister, holy woman, whore. Which of these has she been? Where does her devotion lie? And what virtue can she claim?</p><p>Diannely Antigua is a Dominican-American poet and educator who was born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection, <a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/diannely-antigua-another-poem-about-god-but-really-its-about-me/#media"><i>Ugly Music</i></a>, won a 2020 Whiting Award and the Pamet River Prize. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where she was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to study in Florence, Italy. She was a finalist for the 2021 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Wr...