{"id":6,"date":"2013-06-03T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:34:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rita Maria Martinez<\/p>\n

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Rita Maria Martinez\u2019s work has appeared in various literary journals and magazines: Ploughshares, Diagram, Gargoyle, MiPOesias, The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review. Her poetry also appears in the eighth edition of Stephen Minot’s textbook Three Genres: The Writing of Fiction\/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry and Drama (Prentice Hall) and in the anthology Burnt Sugar, Ca\u00f1a Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish (Simon & Schuster).<\/p>\n

Martinez’s chapbook, Jane-in-the-Box (March Street Press), takes a character from classic English literature, Jane Eyre, and revamps her with tattoos, fishnets, and modern feminism. The poem “St. John Rivers Pops the Question” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The poem \u201cReading Jane Eyre\u201d received an honorable mention in AWP\u2019s Writer\u2019s Chronicle for the 2002 Intro Journals Project.<\/p>\n

Martinez has been a featured author at the Miami Book Fair International; at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida; and at the Palabra Pura reading series at the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Read More : – Press Release and Interview with the author –<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Rita Maria Martinez Rita Maria Martinez\u2019s work has appeared in various literary journals and magazines: Ploughshares, Diagram, Gargoyle, MiPOesias, The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review. Her poetry also appears in the eighth edition of Stephen Minot’s textbook Three Genres: The Writing of Fiction\/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry and Drama (Prentice Hall) and in the anthology Burnt Sugar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}