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Betsy Mitchell Martinez

@betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social

Lawyer/Poet. Poems appear or are forthcoming in EPOCH, Washington Square Review, Indiana Review, New Letters, Shenandoah, Southeast Review, and elsewhere.

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm honored to have been chosen as a finalist for the @rhinopoetry.bsky.social Founders' Prize and excited to have two new poems in the 50th Anniversary Issue!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Thank you so much to Karan at @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social for choosing my sonnet about chronic nausea and Charles Darwin as poem of the month!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I'm grateful to the editors of Gulf Coast for including two of my poems in their summer/fall issue!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I'm excited to have a new poem in the Indiana Review, inspired by a strange and wonderful 15th century manuscript.

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Thank you so much, @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I'm so honored that the wonderful editors at @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social chose my work for the Sho Poetry Prize! I stopped writing for 15 years, and these Frida poems were some of the first things I wrote when I returned to poetry in 2024. I'm excited to share them when the new issue comes out!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Ekphrastic poems are some of the hardest for me to write, and this one--based on my daughter's favorite Frida Kahlo painting--was no exception! Thank you to the editors of @southeastreview.bsky.social for including it in their new issue.

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I'm so honored to have this poem selected as a finalist for the Washington Square Review New Voices Award!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I'm grateful to the editors of @redividermag.bsky.social for including one of my animal battle poems in their newest issue!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I re-read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance not too long ago, and it gifted me a poem. Thanks so much to the editors of @creamcityreview.bsky.social for including it in their gorgeous new issue!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Thanks to the editors of @eldiagram.bsky.social for including this Barbie poem alongside so much other great work!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I recently had an MRI during a week when my preschooler was listening to La Bamba on repeat. I'm so grateful to have a poem about that experience in the current issue of @epochliterary.com!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I'm so excited to have two poems in @newlettersmagazine.bsky.social: my very first abecedarian and a group of sonnets inspired by Jerry Pallotta's wonderful "Who Would Win?" books for kids. www.newletters.org/two-poems-by...

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Two Poems by Betsy Mitchell Martinez – New Letters

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thank you to the editors of Shenandoah Literary Magazine for including this poem in their amazing 75th anniversary issue!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I'm thrilled to have this new poem in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social!

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Betsy Mitchell Martinez @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So excited to have this new poem up at @pinchjournal.bsky.social. Thanks so much to the editors and to @katiedozier.bsky.social for the inspiration!

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