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Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme)

I found it interesting to read additional stanzas of this poem that I didn't know existed.

The talk section has even more that have developed on playgrounds over the years, which was interesting but would draw away from the main point of the article if included. They don't further the history or meaning behind the poem.

It seems to me that the meaning and interpretation sections could be combined as there is so little information in the 'meaning' section and all of it is speculation based on peoples' interpretations. Vanessa Mártir is a Latina author of personal essays, memoirs, and novels. She is a graduate of Columbia University in the City of New York. She lives and works as a writing teacher in New York City with her daughter. She left a career in editing to become a teacher and created "Writing Our Lives Workshop" series for those wanting to learn to write memoirs and personal essays. Martir left home at age 13 to attend boarding school and raised herself from there on. She often writes her experience and the grief of growing up "unmothered" as well as the grief she experienced in losing her brother to addiction. She has published one novel, entitled Woman's Cry, in 2007 and has been working on her memoir "A Dim Capacity for Wings" for ten years.

In 2012 Mártir worked with photographer Meryl Meisler on the exhibition “Defying Devastation: Bushwick in the 1980s".

Essays

 * "Can You See Me Now?: The Fragility of Maternal Transition"
 * "Soup Ministry"
 * "Writers of Color: Your Voice Matters"
 * "She Called It 'White Woman Shit'"
 * "When the Heart Breaks"
 * "The Danger of Being a Woman"
 * "This is Not My Brooklyn"
 * " Understand Why Some Women Stay"
 * "Color in AW(hite)Place"
 * "How Do Hold On To Hope In Times of Injustice?"
 * "Writers Of Color Need Something More"
 * "Do You Want to Be Well?: Lessons from Grief"
 * "13 Ways to Hack Your Writing: Tips from the Trenches"
 * "Uncovering Students’ Stories"
 * "Writing Our Way Through The Door"
 * "These Are Your Lungs on Grief"
 * "Ask a Mutha: What Did You Say When Your Children Woke Up On November 9th?"
 * "This Latina Wants You to Stop Denying Her Her Blackness"
 * "I’m a Single Mom and This Shit is Hard"
 * “On Motherhood and Writing and Why We Sacrifice”

Fiction

 *  Woman’s Cry  (Novel) published May 1, 2007
 * "Dollhead" published January 4, 2016

Awards and Recognition
Mártir is a five time Voice of Our Nation/Voices (VONA/Voices) professor and a two time Tin House contributor.