Sharon Suzuki-Martinez

My new poem posted today on Silver Canyon Review Please visit the journal’s website for a more readable version and to peruse this phenomenal new journal! I fell in love this self-description: “Silver Canyon Review is a literary journal based in Michigan. It’s a place for fiction, prose poetry and visual art inspired by long…

Thank you to PAINTED PEBBLE LIT MAG for publishing my “Memoir of a Water-Bearing Worker” and including audio of me reading it! By the way, above is one of my photos of a Sunflower bee that makes an appearance in the poem.

Dos Gatos Press included my new haibun in their latest gorgeous anthology: NOTES OF LIGHT AND DARK: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes.

Thank you Highland Park Poetry for featuring and beautifully illustrating my poem!

One of my poems made Highland Park Poetry’s Poem of the Day!

Super honored. Dee Cohen is a phenomenal interviewer and journalist.

Bulb Culture Collective kindly interviewed me about my “Desert Cicadas Haibun” for their Shine a Light Series.

Happy this new anthology reprinted a poem about my mom, “Big-Hearted Haibun,” from my book, “The Loneliest Whale Blues.” More info: https://www.lulu.com/shop/jason-wirth-and-jasper-hoffman-and-roberta-hoffman-and-greg-bem/winter-in-america-again/paperback/product-95edezw.html?q=winter+in+america+%28again&page=1&pageSize=4

Many thanks to Bulb Culture Collective for including my first haibun in their Chandelier Series. This is also the last poem in my first book, The Way of All Flux.

“Goodbye Island,” an old favorite poem from my first book was just reprinted in the “Bronze Bird Review.”

Here’s the beginning of my new poem below. The rest of it and its backstory can be found by clicking Unlost, the Journal of Found Poetry and Art, issue 33.

Karen Rigby and I will be reading from our latest books at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Phoenix on Sat, Aug 10th. Show off your fabulous nonchalance towards insane desert monsoons and visit us at this illustrious bookstore! More info at Palabras Events. RSVP not required but appreciated here.

The extraordinary poet Karen Rigby read the first poem of my book, The Loneliest Whale Blues, on the series, “Poetry Moment.” She can make anybody’s poetry magical by reading it aloud: https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/show/poetry-moment/2024-05-23/karen-rigby-reads-the-blue-door-by-sharon-suzuki-martinez

Once won the “Tempe Writes” literary contest so last April got honored with other previous winners for the contest’s 10th anniversary anthology. Here we are as well as my 2016 winning poem that I revised for my book. I never stop editing my work even after I publish it.

From MOLECULE – a tiny lit mag:

In case you missed my reading with Jessica Cuello and Shanta Lee on July 5, 2023, you can experience it here. (photo by David Martinez)

I am told spaces are limited for this free reading. Please register soon at: https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/20230705

If you are in the neighborhood, please join me and some of the contributors to Little Somethings Press, Ephemera issue #5. More info here

If you are planning to be at the AWP, please drop by and say hi! I’ll be at the Book Fair on Saturday, March 11, 10-11 am at the Kundiman booth #728 where I’ll be selling and signing copies of THE LONELIEST WHALE BLUES.

The Woodland Pattern Book Center of Milwaukee featured my book in a recent Instagram Micro-Interview! The rest of the interview is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CgJ5ONylEI_/