A Notebooks Reading for Abortion Access
June 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
In Honor & Memory of Jennifer Martelli
On June 24, on the 4-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson decision, we will gather to honor late poet Jennifer Martelli in a reading to support abortion access. Jennifer was a fierce advocate for women’s rights and in particular, the right to have an abortion. It feels like it’s even more important today, on this anniversary, when the State decided that women no longer had bodily autonomy, to come together to stand in our anger, our determination, and our will to keep fighting for rights for everyone.
The Supreme Court’s decision to all but remove access to abortions and other medical care puts people in preventable life-or-death situations. The Eastern Mass Abortion Fund, operating in the state that Jennifer called home, makes abortion accessible to anyone who needs one. And since the Dobbs decision, the need for the Fund’s services have quadrupled.
The reading is free to attend. All are invited to celebrate Jenn and her life. We only ask that if you are able, you make a contribution to the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund. We hope to raise $1000 for abortion access — please help us reach our goal!
About Jenn
Jennifer Martelli (1962 – 2025) joined us at The Notebooks Collective on November 13, 2022 with fellow Thursday Poet, Kathi Aguero. She was a fierce advocate for poetry and received fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Monson Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her work appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Poetry, Best of the Net Anthology, Braving the Body Anthology, Verse Daily, Plume, The Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree (Lily Poetry Review Books), as well as The Queen of Queens, which won the Italian American Studies Association Book Award and was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award. Jennifer Martelli was co-poetry editor for MER. She is dearly missed.
About Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund
The Eastern Massachusetts Abortion (EMA) Fund works to reduce social and economic barriers to abortion care and bodily autonomy through movement building, advocacy, education, and direct aid.
They envision a world where every person has the right to bodily self-determination, where every person has the right to determine their own future.