PROSE POETRY Talk at POETICÔNI Poetry festival, Cuneo, Italy. [February 2025] 

In this live event, Gessica Sakamoto Martini introduces the form of prose poetry, exploring its historical development and contemporary practice. The session includes readings from both classic and modern prose poets.

Interview with Adam Field and Matt Hughes for the Grimm Reading Podcast [April 2023]: Cinderella (part 2)

Gessica Sakamoto Martini offers insights into the evolution of the various versions of the Cinderella tale, and what she sees as the core of the story that has made it so enduring over time.

Interview with writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet for his article “Slave, princess, killer: why we underestimate Cinderella at our peril” for The Telegraph (UK) [March 2023]:

Gessica Sakamoto Martini offers background on the lesser-known variants of Cinderella and why this fairy tale is such an influential tale.

Interview with writer and historian Lydia Pyne for her book “Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene” published by University of Minnesota Press [August 2022]. 

Gessica Sakamoto Martini offers insights into why fairy tales are so vital to humans and how they have managed to endure through the ages. Lydia Pyne’s book is available to purchase here: http://amzn.to/3QhRWsg

BBC episode “Cinderella: Why Cinderella is such an universal story?” on the podcast program  “The Why Factor” [April 2019]. 

In this episode, Gessica Sakamoto Martini is in conversation with other guests about why Cinderella has become one of the world’s best-known and most beloved fairy tales. The episode is available to listen to on the BBC website. Guests: Gessica Sakamoto Martini – PhD, Durham University| JuwenZhang – Professor of Chinese, Willamette University | Rym Tina Ghazal – Author and Journalist | Ousseina Alidou – Professor of African Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University | Dee Dee Chainey – Author and Co-founder of Folklore Thursday. Editor: Richard Knight | Producer: Tural Ahmedzade.