Seretta Martin


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Seretta Martin, author and artist of Foreign Dust Familiar Rain, New and Collected Poems, and several chap books is a 2011 recipient of a grant from the James Irvine Foundation and Poets and Writers. (barnesandnoble.com amazon.com) She was a featured poet of the 2011 Border Voices "Virtual" ITV Poetry Fair & 18th anthology and shared the stage with award-winning student poets and three of San Diego’s finest poets: Professors Steve Kowit, Celia Sigmon and Chris Baron. (see ITV schedule for shows) Two of her first translations, those of the Lithuanian poet, Sonata Paliulyté, appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annual 2011. She serves on the editorial staff for Poetry International Journal, is a regional editor of San Diego Poetry Annual, hosts the New Alchemy Poetry Series at Upstart Crow Bookstore and Coffee House, Seaport Village, San Diego, (3rd Wed. 7 p.m.) and is a founding member of Haiku San Diego. Seretta teaches workshops K-Adult with California Poets in the Schools and the Border Voices Poetry Project, and serves as the assistant to Border Voices’s founding director, Jack Webb. She also maintains the web site and phone hot-line. Seretta will be conducting the workshop, “Invent a New Form” at the CPITS Symposium in September, 2011. This year she was the poetry judge for St. Marks Religious Art Festival and a guest speaker for The San Diego Writer’s Guild.

Publications:
Her poetry, art and / or book reviews have appeared in over a thirty journals and anthologies including: Web del Sol, Margie, A Year in Ink, Island of Egrets, Oberon Foundation, Oasis Journal, Tidepools, San Diego Poetry Annual, Magee Park, California Poetry Society, Best of Border Voices, CPITS Anthologies, Visions Magazine, Writer’s Monthly, San Diego Arts & Poets, Moonday Poets, Poppyseed Kolache, Poetic Voices, Muse Apprentice, Border Voices Vol. 18, and abroad. (UK) She is currently working on a book combining her poetry with another surprising genre.

Awards & Grants:
Finalist: Atlantic Monthly & Margie Review, Strong Medicine, Vol. 5 (Judge, Linda Paston) with Dance of the Fleeting Children, a poem about children with Progeria (premature aging disease).

Awards: St. Marks Religious Art Festival, California Poetry Society, San Diego Writers Ink, the Linda Brown Scholarship to Idyllwild Arts Summer Poetry Program, “Best Poem,” Oasis Journal,

Outstanding Leadership award, The California Center for the Arts.

Grants: James Irvine Foundation, Poets & Writers Magazine & Vermont Studios.


Other achievements:
Seretta has served as a poetry judge for San Diego Writers Inc., St. Marks Religious Art Festival and The Bay Area Poet's Coalition.

Her poem “Reliquary,” sold to a Los Angeles art collector as a companion piece with a sculpture by P. Baccaccio (David Zaph Gallery of Contemporary Art). She holds a degree in Film and Television with a minor in Educational Technology and also studied art at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles (Walt Disney's art school).

Other Hats:
Media Escort and TV Food Stylist: She has worked with nationwide publishers, TV and food network celebrities and renowned writers and poets: Clive Cusssler, Peter Moss, and many others. She has escorted Li Young Lee, Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ken Waldman to Border Voices Poetry Fairs.

Border Voices Poetry Project www.bordervoices.com.

To hire Seretta for workshops: wordsoup@juno.com
web.mac.com/serettamartin

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