MsMartina• Show poetry

My name is Martina Reisz Newberry. I'm a poet/novelist.
I write of what faces the average human being in just living each and every day without too much pain or too much stress or too much anger and the urgency and challenge of coping with those things. I write about the comparisons between the huge things that make us happy and the small things that make us sad.
I write about relationships--the cruel, the complicated, the simple, the joyful, the sexy, the fearful, the painful, the intense. I write about what can go wrong, what does go wrong, how much beatings hurt and how much kisses heal. I write about the terrors and wonder of childhood, the terrors and wonder of aging. I write about sexuality.
I write about music, dancing, reading, cooking, housecleaning. I write about how, in these simple acts , great fear can exist and destroy the mind and the feelings of just about anyone. I write about intimidation of our peers, strengths of our friends, power of our enemies. I write about war and insects and the smell of clean clothes.
I write about God--how "we pray to a God we do not love for those we do love." I write about churches, priests, confessions, weddings and funerals. I write to and about a God we look for and seldom find. I write about my mother who was mad and my father who was not. I write about madness and how it can be contagious to those who come in contact with it.
I am the author of the following (all available from online bookstores and my website
PERHAPS YOU COULD BREATHE FOR ME
HUNGER
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
NOT UNTRUE AND NOT UNKIND
RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: COLLECTED POEMS.