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Biography

Martina Reisz Newberry’s most recent book is: HUNGER, published by Xlibris Press. She is also the author of: AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE: Poems 1996-2006;THE BANYAN & THE ALDER, published by Arabesques Press 10/06;NOT UNTRUE & NOT UNKIND, published 3/06 by Arabesques Press; RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems, published 9/1/05 by Red Hen Press; and LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH—published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989. All her books are available at Amazon.com. She has been included in Ascent Aspirations'hard-copy Anthologies and has been widely published in literary magazines such as Amelia, Bellingham Review, Cape Rock, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Iowa Woman,New Laurel Review, Pedestal Magazine, Piedmont Literary Review, Southern Review of Poetry, Willow Review, Yet Another Small Magazine, and many others.

Inspiration

Though she has written a biography and three novels, poetry has been and is Newberry’s most passionate love affair with language. She took classes from and was encouraged and mentored in her poetry by her dear friend, the poet Larry Kramer,(author of Brilliant Windows), now deceased. Martina enjoyed residencies at Yaddo, Djerassi, and Anderson Center colonies for the arts where she wrote the initial drafts and notes for many of the poems in After the Earthquake.