{"id":389,"date":"2016-05-24T03:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/?p=389"},"modified":"2016-05-24T03:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:22:20","slug":"rita-to-do-a-reading-at-books-books-coral-gables-fl-june-5th-2016-400pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/rita-to-do-a-reading-at-books-books-coral-gables-fl-june-5th-2016-400pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita to do a reading at Books & Books – Coral Gables, FL – June 5th 2016 @ 4:00pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rita to do a reading at Books & Books – Coral Gables, FL – June 5th 2016 \u00a0@ 4:00pm<\/a><\/h2>\n

Jen Karetnick: American Sentencing & Rita Maria Martinez: The Jane and Bertha in Me – Gables<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\"\"American Sentencing<\/em>\u00a0(Winter Goose Publications, May 2016),\u00a0<\/em>Jen Karetnick’s\u00a0<\/em>second full-length book of poems,\u00a0<\/em>is an\u00a0intense examination of the body and the various indignities and ailments from which it can suffer, as well as an inside look at medicine and healing from the spouse of a physician. The poems are a paean to\u00a0the spirit that endures\u00a0chronic, invisible, neuro-endocrine-immune illness. Whether with complaint, acceptance, or just a nod toward dark humor, this collection turns on the fine points of grief and laughter, and balances respectfully on the same line as those who suffer.<\/div>\n
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Sander Zulauf, Editor Emeritus,\u00a0Journal of New Jersey Poets<\/em>,\u00a0& Poet Laureate, Diocese of Newark, says, \u201cThe poems\u2026 display [Karetnick’s] modern mastery of an ancient form, and some of her other experiments will take your breath away.” Guggenheim fellow Cynthia Huntington, author of\u00a0Heavenly Bodies<\/em>, writes, \u201cThese poems are quick bright things, which do not come to confusion. Karetnick\u2019s rich glossary of symptoms, diagnoses and prescriptions yields an image of spirit at odds with the body on which it must depend. Sometimes angry, sometimes wickedly funny, her poems are unsparing, surprising, and always sharply intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jen Karetnick<\/strong>‘s poetry and prose pieces have recently appeared or are forthcoming in\u00a0TheAtlantic.com, Guernica, Negative Capability, Prairie Schooner,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Spillway<\/em>. She won the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Prize and was runner-up for the 2015 Atlantis Prize for Poetry and 2016 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize. She works as the Creative Writing Director for Miami Arts Charter School and as a freelance dining critic, lifestyle journalist and author. Her cookbooks have won prizes for excellence in culinary writing from Les Dames d’Escoffier and from the World Gourmand Awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rita Maria Martinez\u2019s The Jane and Bertha in Me is a Rubik\u2019s CubeTM of Janes. Each poem is a smartly annotated, hauntingly revisionist homage to Jane Eyre. Martinez\u2019s astounding poems are literary, conversational, personal, fun, as she confidently transports her Janes from the Moors to Macy\u2019s, from Thornfield Hall to the world of tattoos.<\/p>\n

\u2014Denise Duhamel, author of Blowout
\nThere is some kind of serious magic at work in this wonderful book. Reading it, I feel as if I am waking up in another world where Gothic sensibility of Jane Eyre joins the surreal of contemporary American culture. The experience is nothing short of intoxicating. I can\u2019t wait to read more of Rita Maria Martinez\u2019s work.
\n\u2014Nin Andrews, author of Why God is a Woman
\nRita Maria Martinez\u2019s The Jane and Bertha in Me gives an unusual twist to the well-known characters from Jane Eyre, envisioning Jane at the guidance counselor, Bertha getting a makeover. These persona poems give us greater insight into the minds of madwoman and governess alike and even minor characters like Blanche and Alice, with beautiful, lush language and empathetic vision. Even casual fans of Bront\u00eb\u2019s great book will enjoy this lively re-imagining.
\n\u2014Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of The Robot Scientist\u2019s Daughter<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/u>:<\/p>\n

Rita Maria Martinez<\/strong> is\u00a0a\u00a0Cuban-American poet whose writing appears in journals including the\u00a0Notre Dame<\/em>Review, Ploughshares,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a02River View.\u00a0<\/em>Her poetry also appears in the textbook\u00a0Three Genres: The Writing of Fiction\/Literary Nonfiction, Poetry and Drama<\/em>;\u00a0and in the anthology\u00a0Burnt Sugar, Ca\u00f1a Quemada: Contemporary Cuban Poetry in<\/em>English and Spanish.\u00a0<\/em>Martinez has been a featured author\u00a0at the Miami Book Fair; at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida; and at the Palabra Pura reading series in Chicago. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from FIU. Martinez is a Writing Consultant for NSU where she teaches writing workshops and tutors undergraduate and graduate students. She is also an independent reading and writing tutor. Her poetry collection,\u00a0The Jane and Bertha<\/em>in Me<\/em>, is published by Aldrich Press and celebrates Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s classic novel\u00a0Jane Eyre\u2014<\/em>as well as the bicentenary of Bront\u00eb\u2019s birth.\u00a0<\/strong>Former Poet Laureate of Virginia, Jeannine Hall Gailey, says \u201cThe Jane and Bertha in Me\u00a0<\/em>gives an unusual twist to the well known characters from\u00a0Jane Eyre<\/em>. These persona poems give us greater insight into the minds of madwoman and governess alike, with beautiful, lush language and empathetic vision. Even casual fans of Bront\u00eb\u2019s great book will enjoy this lively re-imagining.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rita to do a reading at Books & Books – Coral Gables, FL – June 5th 2016 \u00a0@ 4:00pm Jen Karetnick: American Sentencing & Rita Maria Martinez: The Jane and Bertha in Me – Gables American Sentencing\u00a0(Winter Goose Publications, May 2016),\u00a0Jen Karetnick’s\u00a0second full-length book of poems,\u00a0is an\u00a0intense examination of the body and the various indignities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeonhome.org\/wordpress_development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}