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"I love this book with its strength and riskiness, its weaving of the Kitty Genovese story with the narrator's own story and life. The details Martelli provides seem so real, so rooted, so perfect for these two intertwined tales...This is a book I won't soon forget. Certainly, it's a book not to be ... Read More about My Tarantella (VIA Folios #135)

Mom Egg Review is an annual collection of literary writing about diverse experiences of motherhood.... Read More about Mom Egg Review 17: Vol. 17 - 2019 (Mer - Mom Egg Review #4)

"Jennifer Martelli's tightly focused poems invite us into an imperfect world defined by her rich personal history. This is a place she knows well, one that is continually reinvented by the people who are its fabric. Once within these walls we find that the struggle is real and the poet who guides us... Read More about The Uncanny Valley

In this tenacious collection of poems, the drugs, pop music, rocket crash, and Martelli's "queens"--from Geraldine Ferraro to Madonna, Nancy Pelosi to Molly Ringwald--embody the struggle with and resistance against gender oppression, political sexism, and ongoing threats to reproductive rights, whil... Read More about The Queen of Queens (VIA Folios #156)