Jennifer Martelli (she, her, hers) is the author of The Queen of Queens and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press), awarded an Honorable Mention from the Italian-American Studies Association, selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and named as a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. She is also the author of […]
Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli: Succulent
I want to fill a bay window with fifteen jade plants in terra cotta pots until they grow thick and knotted as snakes tangling in the hair of a woman raped by a god and punished by a woman. I want to tease rubbery pearl beads of asterids into a rosary string, finger them, pray […]