Author: Todd Puccio

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Rita attends a special Workshop : “PINTURA:PALABRA, a project in ekphrasis”

Click Here to Read a Full Review of the Workshop here from the Best American Poetry Blog, by Roy Guzmán :

Miami’s Canvas: The Second Stop of PINTURA:PALABRA [by Roy Guzmán]

Part of

“PINTURA:PALABRA, a project in ekphrasis”

From the May 9th 2014 until May 11th, 2014

Rita Maria Martinez joined eight other poets from Miami, Tampa, and El Salvador — Elisa Albo, Adrian Castro, Silvia Curbelo, Mia Leonin, Rita Maria Martinez, Caridad Moro-McCormick, Alexandra Lytton Regalado, and Emma Trelles

They convened at Florida International University’s Frost Art Museum to respond to the exhibit’s diverse collection of works.

Under the guidance of Francisco Aragónand Emma Trelles

A collaborative effort between the Smithsonia Institution and Letras Latinas, the literary initiative of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Click Here to Read a Full Review here from the Best American Poetry Blog, by Roy Guzmán :

Miami’s Canvas: The Second Stop of PINTURA:PALABRA [by Roy Guzmán]

http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2014/06/miamis-canvas-the-second-stop-of-pinturapalabra-by-roy-guzm%C3%A1n.html

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Rita reads at the Society of the Four Arts

http://www.fourarts.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.one&content_id=555&x=9601508

Time: Saturday, February 13, 2010 11:00 a.m.
 Location: Society of the Four Arts, King Library
Two years ago, anthology editor Francisco Aragón presented the work of three poets to highlight the publication of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He returns to share his own work and will be joined by Florida-based poets Rita Maria Martinez and Emma Trelles, who in the past year have published their first books of poetry.
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The Society of the Four Arts
2 Four Arts Plaza
Palm Beach, FL 33480
Gallery & Box Office: (561) 655-7226
The King Library: (561) 655-2766

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Rita reads in Chicago – Literary Guild Complex – Part of the the Palabra Pura Series

Literary Guild Complex

Time: Wednesday November 18, 2009 7:30 p.m.
 Location: Chicago, IL
Part of the the Palabra Pura Series
– Rita Maria Martinez and Luis Tubens read for the Guild Complex.
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at the restaurant   Decima Musa

 Coverage at :

November 18: Palabra Pura at Decima Musa: Rita María Martínez and Luis Tubens

http://chicagopoetry.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1287&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

and

Literary Guild Complex – Palabra Pura

http://www.guildcomplex.dreamhosters.com/?q=node/4

and

ARTEYVIDA Chicago

http://www.arteyvidachicago.com/rita-maria-martinez-and-luis-tubens/

 

 

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Books and Books

Books and Books

www.booksandbooks.com

Time: Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:00 p.m.
 Location: Books & Books, Coral Gables
Please join us as we celebrate the work of alumni of Florida International University’s M.F.A. program in Creative Writing. New books by alums out this year include: Lynn Kiele Bonasia’s novel Some Assembly Required; Susan Briante’s poetry collection Pioneers in the Study of Motion; Rita Martinez’s poetry collection Jane-in-the-Box; and Ian Vasquez’s novel In the Heat. Joining these readers will be recent graduates Kevin Allen, Jen Bartman, Andrea Dulanto, Jose Fallad, Karen Kravit, Denise Lanier, Patsy Warman, and Jeff Wehr.
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265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables
305.442.4408
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Review of _Jane in the Box_ on the Bronte Blog

Review of  Jane in the Box on the Brontë Blog

 


Excerpt from a Review of Jane-in-the-Box posted August 21, 2008 on The Brontë Blog by M.

Another collection of poems can be described as poetical retellings of different given episodes of Jane Eyre, with many references extracted from the contemporary American cultural context (from Macy’s to Chanel or Mary Kay crèmes). Here we can find poems of extraordinary richness of detail and unashamed intertextuality like the Mortification Triptych, Jane addresses Edward, Fashion remedy, St John pops the question or the Rochester Triptych (the only ones where Rochester is allowed to speak his mind(4).

The chapbook ends with a poem, The appropriation of Jane, that serves as an excellent coda to the the whole work. Using references to her own Cuban origins, the author describes the fascination which Jane Eyre has on her. The best way to end this brief review of this charming little book of poems is quoting from a paragraph from this last poem:

this poem is about the quintessential
Plain Jane: Jane Eyre, who graciously helps

birth poems stubborn as kidney stones,
mischievous poems that hopscotch

across the page because I’ve ripped
off Charlotte Brontë heroine