Martha Park | The On Being Project

The On Being Project

Martha Park

is originally from Memphis, Tennessee, but currently lives and works as a writing tutor in Roanoke, Virginia. She graduated from Hollins University’s MFA program and is the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry.

March 26, 2016 | 7:00 AM

Reliquary: Histories Incarnate

Martha Park

This year, Easter falls a week before the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination. As we draw nearer to both, a writer revisits her family’s story of the night Dr. King was killed, forty-eight years ago.

Of All Commandments: Sitting Beside My Neighbor

Martha Park

What does it mean to carry a gun and “love your neighbor”? A writing instructor delves into the idea of neighborliness and fear through her training as a tutor and a pivotal passage from the Bible.