The night the old mattress ruined my spine, I could hear its coils squeak a rhythm inside the ticking, could feel the tufts and buttons pressed into my back, thought, tomorrow I’ll cut those rosettes off with the sharp scissors I keep for thread, for cloth, to mend. I rub its long blades opened like […]
Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli is the author of The Queen of Queens, winner of the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and named a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and My Tarantella, also a “Must Read,” and finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Tahoma Literary Review, Folio, Jet Fuel Review, Tab: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Jennifer Martelli has twice received grants for poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is co-poetry editor of MER.