Rita Maria Martinez's Blog

Friends,

I'll be reading poetry from The Jane and Bertha in Me during the 2020 Bronte Virtual Conference. This promises to be a fun-packed day with an impressive line-up of authors. The conference takes place Sept 4th.

Please click on the link below to review the program offerings.

https://bronte2020.wordpress.com/

Hi Friends,

I am participating in a virtual poetry reading tomorrow with Barbara Ungar, the author of Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life.

For details please click on the link below or copy & paste into your url bar.

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Hi Friends,

Below is some info about the AWP panel I will be participating in soon. Hope to see some of you at AWP 2020!

Title: Often Not Included in Inclusion: Neurodiversity and Creative Writing Instruction

Panel Number: F164

Date/Time: 10:35am - 11:50am on Friday March 6, 2020

Location: Room 214C, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level*

Often Not Included in Inclusion:
Neurodiversity and Creative Writing Instruction

Panel Description:

This panel explores best practices for designing inclusive creative writing courses that respect neurodiversity and neurological variation. In fostering accessible spaces for all creative writing students, panelists (including neurodivergent writers) reimagine the contemporary creative writing classroom. What are the advantages and limits of the models we use? How might we build more accessible and equitable experiences that encourage a lifetime of reading and writing?

Statement of Merit:

Approaches to inclusive pedagogies often leave out neurodiversity and, in doing so, leave out many students and teachers. Panelists (including neurodivergent writers) have recent books about inclusion and identity in the creative writing classroom and varied experiences with neurodiversity in different types of institutions and programs. They will consider multiple, informed axes of marginalization and forms of diversity to suggest asset-based pedagogies that encourage neurodivergent aesthetics.

Hi Friends,

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I am thankful for many things this year--especially for the support and encouragement of fellow writers and bloggers.

I am honored to have my poetry collection--The Jane and Bertha in Me--listed as one of the Best Bronte Books of 2018.

There are many wonderful books & reviews on this list provided by notable Bronte Blogger Nicola Friar. I am buying some of these books & putting others on my wishlist. Maybe Santa will surprise me!

I hope you'll click on the link below and explore some new Bronte books. They make great gifts.

https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/...-

Dear Readers,

I am thrilled that The Jane and Bertha in Me is being taught this semester as part of a Gender Studies course at The University of Kentucky!

I am also very happy for a very thorough review provided by Nicola Friar, a blogger who has wonderful articles on her site "The Bronte Babe Blog."

Following is a link to the review. Hope you will check out the new review, which examines my book in a unique way. Also, Nicola has excellent articles up about many Bronte-related books, landmarks, and early works:

https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/...

Friends,

I am doubly blessed to have been a guest on another podcast, The Lay Back and Think of England podcast. Upbeat host Sarah Mack asked some great questions. If you heard the Bonnets at Dawn podcast from last month, this is a perfect follow-up.

I read additional poems from The Jane and Bertha in Me and the inspiration behind specific poems. We also had a ball chatting about Jane Eyre film adaptations and the novels Wuthering Heights and Persuasion.

Below is a link for Episode 12.5. Have fun and enjoy!

https://shows.pippa.io/lay-back-and-u...

Rita Maria Martinez

Hi Friends,

Excited to have been a guest on Epidsode 28 of the popular Bonnets at Dawn podcast. This podcast is about authors Jane Austen, the Brontes, and Elizabeth Gaskell. I love Laura and Hannah's lively banter and think Bonnets at Dawn is a very relevant podcast. They chat about the novels, adaptations, literary festivals, etc.

You can find Bonnets at Dawn on Twitter. They also have a Facebook group and admit members upon request. Do yourself a favor and listen to an epidsode.

I read some poetry from The Jane and Bertha in Me and had fun chatting about Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte's correspondence.

Below is a link. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/bonnetsatdawn/...

Hi Friends,

Excited to have been a guest on Epidsode 28 of the popular Bonnets at Dawn podcast. This podcast is about authors Jane Austen, the Brontes, and Elizabeth Gaskell. I love Laura and Hannah's lively banter and think Bonnets at Dawn is a very relevant podcast. They chat about the novels, adaptations, literary festivals, etc.

You can find Bonnets at Dawn on Twitter. They also have a Facebook group and admit members upon request. Do yourself a favor and listen to an epidsode.

I read some poetry from The Jane and Bertha in Me and had fun chatting about Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte's correspondence.

Below is a link. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/bonnetsatdawn/...

Dear Readers in the U.S.,

My poetry collection, The Jane and Bertha in Me, is on sale this month on my website. This makes a nice Christmas gift for the Jane Eyre fan in your life.

Order through PayPal on my site, and I'll be happy to dedicate and sign a copy. Please visit http://comeonhome.org/wordpress_devel...

I hope you spend this season surrounded by loved and by books you love!