Poetry Medicine for the Soul is a podcast inviting poets to share and examine their work, produced and moderated by John Gillespie. Episode 9 features poet Jennifer Martelli reading from her new book, Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree. She reads and discusses the following poems: “Ceruse,” “Moon Jellyfish,” “One Year After My Friend Posted a Photo of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s The Bacchante: Head of a Woman With the Horns of a Ram,” “Olioid”, “Did it take long to find me?,” “Listening to Nicole Wallace and Thinking of Jericho Brown’s Poem,” “Growing Out My Bangs,” “Fascism,” and “Rilke.”
Jennifer Martelli (she/her/hers) has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Braving the Body Anthology, Verse Daily, Plume, The Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree (December, 2024, Lily Poetry Review Books), as well as The Queen of Queens, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. Jennifer is co-poetry editor for MER (Mom Egg Review).
Find Jennifer’s books from the links below:
Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree, order from Lily Poetry Review Books here
Dear Justice, order from Grey Book Press here.
All Things Are Born to Change Their Shapes, order from Small Harbor Publishing
The Queen of Queens order from Asterism here.
My Tarantella from Asterism here.
In the Year of Ferraro from Nixes Mate Press or Amazon
Learn more at jennmartelli.com. Follow Jennifer on Facebook or Instagram.