Poetry
Selected Poems
Missouri Review | "Couplets"
SWWIM | "In Love"
Ecotone | "Frick"
TriQuarterly | Two Poems
Radar Poetry | Four Poems (Finalist, Coniston Prize)
Black Warrior Review | "Webcam"
Shenandoah | Three Poems
The Penn Review | "Mandala of the Mountain Path" (Finalist, Penn Review Prize)
Poetry Northwest | "The Moon" (Pushcart Prize nominee)
The Common | "The God Structure" (Pushcart Prize nominee)
Translations
The Hopkins Review | "Mirabai: Eight Songs," Winner of the 2023 Anne Frydman Translation Prize, judged by Tomás Q. Morín
POETRY Magazine | "Mira's Colors" - Mirabai
Palette Poetry | "Mira With Exclamation Points" - Mirabai (in Robin Myers' column "The Guest")
Solstice | Two Mirabai Translations
The Journal of Vaishnava Studies | Four Mirabai Translations
Missouri Review | "Couplets"
SWWIM | "In Love"
Ecotone | "Frick"
TriQuarterly | Two Poems
Radar Poetry | Four Poems (Finalist, Coniston Prize)
Black Warrior Review | "Webcam"
Shenandoah | Three Poems
The Penn Review | "Mandala of the Mountain Path" (Finalist, Penn Review Prize)
Poetry Northwest | "The Moon" (Pushcart Prize nominee)
The Common | "The God Structure" (Pushcart Prize nominee)
Translations
The Hopkins Review | "Mirabai: Eight Songs," Winner of the 2023 Anne Frydman Translation Prize, judged by Tomás Q. Morín
POETRY Magazine | "Mira's Colors" - Mirabai
Palette Poetry | "Mira With Exclamation Points" - Mirabai (in Robin Myers' column "The Guest")
Solstice | Two Mirabai Translations
The Journal of Vaishnava Studies | Four Mirabai Translations
Book Reviews
Fence | "Poem without Beginning or End: on the Ramayana and Vivek Narayanan's After"
Rhino | Graphic Review: Atang by Patrick Rosal
Rhino | Review: I'm So Fine by Khadijah Queen
Rhino | Graphic Review: Atang by Patrick Rosal
Rhino | Review: I'm So Fine by Khadijah Queen
Essays
DMQ Review | "Ars Poetica in Five Easy Pieces: On Flashlights, Bears, and Disregarding Your Own Advice"
Scholarship
The Journal of Vaishnava Studies | "Notes on Translating Mirabai"
A discussion of English-language approaches to translating Mira, with four new translations. Volume 30.2 (Spring 2022):19-26.
South Asia | "The Autobiographical Pose: Life Narrative and Religious Transformation in the Mirabai Tradition"
The literary corpus of the sixteenth-century North Indian bhakti poet-saint Mirabai has grown over time as devotees have used (and continue to use) her name, life story and first-person voice in poems. Drawing on hagiographies, written and oral poems, printed collections and performative engagements with Mira, I argue that these moments of autobiographical ‘posing’ reveal autobiography as powerful for speaking about religious transformation, in particular the issues of authority, experience and critique. Furthermore, the centrality of autobiographical speech in the tradition is linked to an increasing emphasis on Mira as a figure of religious transformation, and bhakti itself as a transformative path. Volume 41:2 (2018): 418-434.
The Medieval History Journal | "Gathering the Threads: Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia,"
This article investigates autobiography as an improvisatory mode of religious speech in pre-colonial South Asia, arguing (i) that autobiographical writing in early South Asia is marked by great spontaneity and invention of form in the absence of a proper literary genre; (ii) that we can discern distinctly South Asian ways of speaking autobiographically, ways that predate and differ from modern European understandings of autobiography and (iii) that autobiographical speech is used as a powerful technique for religious polemic in South Asia and appears in particular at moments of heightened religio-political competition and contestation. Along with a number of examples, two texts will be explored in greater detail: autobiographies by a seventeenth-century Jain merchant and religious reformer Banarasidas and a nineteenth-century Christian priest and convert from Islam, ‘Imad ud-din. Volume 18:2 (2015):250-277.
Dissertation Reviews | The Searching Self: Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia Reviewed by James D. Reich
"The goal, Martinez claims, is three-fold: to better understand forms of South Asian writing, to productively modify the Western literary theories we rely on when thinking about things like autobiography, and to dispel the notion that autobiography was only introduced to the region by the British."
A discussion of English-language approaches to translating Mira, with four new translations. Volume 30.2 (Spring 2022):19-26.
South Asia | "The Autobiographical Pose: Life Narrative and Religious Transformation in the Mirabai Tradition"
The literary corpus of the sixteenth-century North Indian bhakti poet-saint Mirabai has grown over time as devotees have used (and continue to use) her name, life story and first-person voice in poems. Drawing on hagiographies, written and oral poems, printed collections and performative engagements with Mira, I argue that these moments of autobiographical ‘posing’ reveal autobiography as powerful for speaking about religious transformation, in particular the issues of authority, experience and critique. Furthermore, the centrality of autobiographical speech in the tradition is linked to an increasing emphasis on Mira as a figure of religious transformation, and bhakti itself as a transformative path. Volume 41:2 (2018): 418-434.
The Medieval History Journal | "Gathering the Threads: Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia,"
This article investigates autobiography as an improvisatory mode of religious speech in pre-colonial South Asia, arguing (i) that autobiographical writing in early South Asia is marked by great spontaneity and invention of form in the absence of a proper literary genre; (ii) that we can discern distinctly South Asian ways of speaking autobiographically, ways that predate and differ from modern European understandings of autobiography and (iii) that autobiographical speech is used as a powerful technique for religious polemic in South Asia and appears in particular at moments of heightened religio-political competition and contestation. Along with a number of examples, two texts will be explored in greater detail: autobiographies by a seventeenth-century Jain merchant and religious reformer Banarasidas and a nineteenth-century Christian priest and convert from Islam, ‘Imad ud-din. Volume 18:2 (2015):250-277.
Dissertation Reviews | The Searching Self: Religious Autobiography in Pre-Colonial South Asia Reviewed by James D. Reich
"The goal, Martinez claims, is three-fold: to better understand forms of South Asian writing, to productively modify the Western literary theories we rely on when thinking about things like autobiography, and to dispel the notion that autobiography was only introduced to the region by the British."
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