Martina Newberry - Highly Acclaimed Poet in her natural habitat -- "Hollywood"

Visit her website:
http://martina.rollwiththechanges.org

Blurbs and Book Reviews

• Martina Newberry has remarked that this striving for clarity in the service of calling her readers to "see further, be more" is something that has drawn  me to Newberry's poetry from her first book to this latest. However, in this collection of poems, Hunger, Martina "sings" with the voice of a poet who has been transformed by living her life full on; sometimes afraid, sometimes confident, always willing to laugh at herself and cry for others

• Martina's poems are not for relaxation.  More accurately, they call the reader to pay attention, be mindful of what is seen and what is said around him/her.

• Newberry is not a poet who celebrates a belief in herself as the only reality (known as "solipsism". While you are weeping or laughing while reading Hunger, you will create your own reality.

• When she writes "On the Foreclosure of the Only House I Ever Owned" she discovers that "in love's great stink and stammer, the seasons don't matter." In Lower Case Letters she takes us, far from the Elysian Fields and into the weedy garden of poverty in America, but with humor and practicality.

"What's wrong, says she
My head hurts says I.
When we hung up, 
I balanced my checkbook." 

Author and Poet Djelloul Marbrook notes that "this  protégé of the late Virginia Adair is a restless experimenter with a forthright demotic voice. Her poetic demeanor invites you to think of the sort of person who, upon meeting, you know you're not going to be able to have a pleasantly vacuous relationship; it's going to be an engagement or nothing at all. There is nothing of the deadly competence and bland content one often  finds in poetry in our day." 

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To those who'd ground me,
Take a message back from me:
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity! - Martina Newberry

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Martina Reisz Newberry is a highly popular writer of poetry and fiction. Her books are available on most online bookstores.  She lives in Hollywood, CA with her "amazingly wonderful" husband, Brian, and their "dictator" cat, Gato.  According to Martina, she is happier than any individual has a right to be.

In describing her books, Filmmaker Saul Landau says, "Martina Reisz Newberry embodies a compelling storytelling style reminiscent of Robert Frost, the enigmatic brilliance of Emily Dickinson and the working class insights of the great singer-poet John Prine."

Martina has been writing since she was a child. "When you're an 'only', "she says, "you find family and friends in the darndest things.  I found company in journal writing.  I started a diary when I was 10 and have kept one ever since." 

Her first published book Lima Beans and City Chicken:  A Memoir of the Open Hearth sold out during its first printing in 1989.  It is a memoir of her father (one of the first 42 men hired at Kaiser Steel plant in Fontana, CA), and his life with family and friends

A book of fiction, The Star Jasmine Club, was purchased by EP Dutton and Co. but never published because the company was sold to Penguin.  (Martina didn't have to pay the advance back although the book was never released)  Although she has written a couple of novels, she is celebrated for her poetry.

Running Like a Woman with Her Hair on Fire was released in 2004 by the Red Hen Press.  The next two were published by the Arabesques Press in Algeria amid are included in the National Library of Algeria

Martina Newberry's most recent book, Perhaps You Could Breathe for Me, is now on the press. It should be available on Amazon.com,  BarnesandNoble.com, and Borders.com in May, 2009. 

 Martina is also the author of Hunger, published by Xlibris Press, 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 Ameba, 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

Martina notes that for as long as she can remember her spirit has been defined by her writing. "Poetry and fiction chose me," she says, "not the other way around.  Through writing, I live as I wish, share what I wish, in my own way. With each line I write, I reconsider, re-examine, give thanks for the unfolding that is my life.

"My words call to men and women to dance out their lives, not drag through them; sing out their anger and lust and sensuality, not hide these things under ladylike, lowered eyelids. My poems call to all individuals to see more, see further, be more . . ."

For more information and to see excerpts of her books, which speak to the heart and soul, visit amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com or Martina's own website -- http:rollwiththechanges.org