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Seretta Martin -- smd4@mac.com
Seretta Martin is the author and illustrator of Foreign Dust Familiar Rain, New and Collected Poems, published, 2002 and available through San Diego State University Bookstore, Open Door Books and on-line at barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com
As a poet and artist she loves teaching K-12 poetry workshops in the Border Voices Poetry Project and the California Poets in the Schools programs. She also serves as the San Diego Border Voices/CPITS area co-coordinator. Seretta is a TV Host on the Border Voices ITV program: Doorways to Vision (Educational TV Cox, San Diego, Ch. 16) For Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Hazard Center, San Diego, she is the MC Host of a poetry series on the 3rd Monday from 7 - 9 p.m.
This year Seretta is a finalist in Margie Review, Strong Medicine, Vol. 5 Fall, 2006 (Judge,Linda Paston) with Dance of the Fleeting Children, a poem about children with Progeria (premature aging disease). In 2005 she received a writers grant from Vermont Studios. Her awards include: St. Marks Religious Art Festival, 2005, 2006, San Diego WritersINK Romance Poetry, 2005, 2006. Other achievements: Judged the Bay Area Poet's Coalition's annual poetry contest, Winter, 2004 and an Outstanding Leadership award from The California Center for the Arts, Escondido in 1998.
Publications: Margie Review,2006, UK Russian newspaper translations, 2005, Magee Park Anthology (Carlsbad Library), Tide Pools Anthology (Mira Costa College), Visions Magazine, Poetic Voices, Muse Apprentice, San Diego Writer's Monthly and San Diego Arts & Poets.
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). An archived Web-cast interview/reading with Seretta by Collin Kelly can be heard on Leisure Talk Radio, NYC; The Business of Words, Program #10:www.magespell.com/podcast/BWDsh10.mp3
Seretta holds a degree from San Diego State University in Film and Television with a minor in Educational Technology and also studied art at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angles (Walt Disney's art school). Currently, she is working on a second book with her jealous cat, Velcro, (Velly) attempting to sit on the iBook G4 keyboard eying the mouse.
Recent Educational Accomplishments:
Resulting from the poetry workshops Seretta taught in San Diego City Schools, Ramona and Poway, fifteen of her students were published in the annual Border Voices Poetry anthology this year. Four of her students were award winners. She interviewed two of them on ITV with Ken Waldman, the "fiddler poet from Alaska," who was in town to perform at the annual Border Voices Poetry Fair along with Dana Gioia, the President of the National Endowment of the Arts and celebrity poets Sharon Olds and Luis Rodriguez. Previous years she has been the media escort for Robert Creeley and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
To read more about the Border Voices Poetry Project or to hire Seretta for workshops see www.bordervoices.com - Click on Poet Teacher, then on Who Are They. Scroll down to her profile or contact her at wordsoup@juno.com or wordsoup@cox.net
