Martina Newberry is a poet who has discovered a way to speak clearly to those with whom she shares this planet. She perceives the small and the great things of life in a way most people have forgotten, if they ever knew. She is not always amusing, not always gentle, often wry, sometimes angry. But, Newberry is a fine poet because she looks us in the eye and tells us how it is with her and with others. Martina Newberry knows things. Her poems sing with passion and urgency, and with sheer grace.
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The only thing I didn't like about this book was that it ended. I wish this book was magical, never having an end. Martina Newberry is a great author that knows how to thrill her audience.
--Kelvin L. Hamville, DE--New Review Books...brilliantly written book...From a "Lucid Dream" to "The Numbering Beast." Each one of the author's poems are incredibly written. I can't wait to read more of Martina Newberry's poetry.
--Jerry M Akron, MI--New Review Books
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For many years, during those long nights when I cannot sleep, I have listened to late night radio. The shows I listen to are those that deal with supernatural, the paranormal, the spooky, the conspiratorial. The subjects of those radio shows have often given me odd ideas which I've woven into poems...hence, this book.
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Martina Reisz Newberry was born in 1944 in Upland, California. She grew up in the "Inland Empire" (San Bernardino County) and began keeping a journal at age 7. She has been writing ever since.
Newberry's most recent book is LATE NIGHT RADIO, due out in October, 2010. She is also the author of PERHAPS YOU COULD BREATHE FOR ME, HUNGER, AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE:POEMS 1996-2006, NOT UNTRUE & NOT UNKIND, and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems.
Ms. Newberry is the winner of i.e. magazine's Editor's Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998: AN APPARENT, APPROACHABLE LIGHT.
She is the author of LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH--a memoir of her father--published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989.
She has written four novels and several books of poetry, has been included in Ascent Aspirations first Anthology. She has been widely published in literary magazines such as: Amelia, Ascent Aspirations, Bellingham Review, Cape Rock, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South,Haight Ashbury Literary Journal,Innisfree,Iowa Woman,New Laurel Review, Passages North, Pedestal Magazine, Southern Review of Poetry, Touchstone,Women's Work,and others.
Martina lives in Hollywood, California with her husband, Brian, a talented videographer, and their benevolent dictator/cat, Gato.
Newberry's most recent book is LATE NIGHT RADIO, due out in October, 2010. She is also the author of PERHAPS YOU COULD BREATHE FOR ME, HUNGER, AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE:POEMS 1996-2006, NOT UNTRUE & NOT UNKIND, and RUNNING LIKE A WOMAN WITH HER HAIR ON FIRE: Collected Poems.
Ms. Newberry is the winner of i.e. magazine's Editor's Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998: AN APPARENT, APPROACHABLE LIGHT.
She is the author of LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH--a memoir of her father--published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989.
She has written four novels and several books of poetry, has been included in Ascent Aspirations first Anthology. She has been widely published in literary magazines such as: Amelia, Ascent Aspirations, Bellingham Review, Cape Rock, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South,Haight Ashbury Literary Journal,Innisfree,Iowa Woman,New Laurel Review, Passages North, Pedestal Magazine, Southern Review of Poetry, Touchstone,Women's Work,and others.
Martina lives in Hollywood, California with her husband, Brian, a talented videographer, and their benevolent dictator/cat, Gato.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
moving, surreal, and "late night",
This review is from: Late Night Radio (Paperback)
Martina Riesz Newberry is AWESOME!!!!
when you read Late Night Radio, its like "Been their, done that!" Check out this one part: THE SECRET LIFE OF JESUS The futre's fragrant breath asks what can I forgive-can I forgive at all? Even writing these things, I can't remember them as they were (a movie marquee that won't tell me what to feel... "LATE NIGHT RADIO" is NOT about the wierd stuff you hear on graveshifts. Its more like - how "LIFE" can sometimes make you "FEEL" - like your listening to a LATE NIGHT RADIO - which it can! I think thats why Martina Riesz Newberry called it that. LATE NIGHT RADIO is 1 of those books you need to pick it up again and go back to it. Its not like anything else out ther. Check this book out - even if you don't usually read poetry, its SERIOUSLY GOOD!!!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great collection of poems,
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This review is from: Late Night Radio (Paperback)
In Late Night Radio, Martina Reisz Newberry discovers the beauties of going to a psychic to discover she will live, a boy tossing a dead seagull back into the water, and listening to a late night radio talk show about UFOs. She writes about the kinds of lives people I know live. In "Conspiracies--It Might Be Best Not to Listen," she writes: "I can't be a poet for the mighty." She is a poet for everyone who has been "slapped around" and "twisted up," and for the homeless man who hangs out in front of store. This book is for everyone who is ready to be saved.
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Late Night Radio,
By Megz (Seattle WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Late Night Radio (Paperback)
Late Night Radio is a wonderfully probing collection of poems, drawing on those recent observations and ancient memories we all can share. Martina Newberry's honest, and often raw, prose, do more than scratch through the surface of so many rarely spoken subjects.
Late Night Radio-Nocturne, is my favorite selection in this book. This work is a stark examination of fear, and fear's pervasive and broad spectrum in everyday life. Another entry, where I see my own state of mind, is Crop Circles: "Waking from a postprandial nap, waking to the smell of Night Blooming Jasmine, so much of the day is gone in sleep. Out the window there are symbols in the grass Waiting for me. Here I am My soul gone all weedy, Needing to be groomed." I recommend this book for all those searching for a perspective that focuses on the light, dark and gray, that fills our lives. Megz
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