Quotes


photo: Project Wasabi

Some quotes from reviews of Martina Reisz Newberry’s poetry:

“…these poems are worth a careful read, with heart, mind, and memory open to
the pain that life deals us, and a ready recognition that none of us are alone in our struggles.”
 – Jim Lewis

“Newberry accepts and celebrates our willingness to accept the ever-changing, daily bibles that come to us–“new things to be and do and bow to.”
 – Red Hen Press
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Newberry embodies a compelling story telling style reminiscent of Robert Frost, the enigmatic brilliance of Emily Dickinson and the working class insights of John Prine.”
 – Saul Landau
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“I am plain bowled over by Newberry’s poems…for the pure strength of their language and the surprises, light and dark, that they unroll.”
 – Josephine Humphries 
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“Newberry is an artist touched by brilliance, and her gifts simply refuse to be denied. Poets, they say, are either born or made. Newberry is both.”
– Gerald Locklin
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“Newberry is a poet of spiritual surprise, a poet of transcending images pulled from a very real, contemporary, attentive woman’s life.”
 – John Balaban