In 1988, Martinez was charged with conspiracy for allegedly transporting two Salvadoran women refugees into the United States;[3] she was working as a freelance reporter covering religion and the Sanctuary Movement at the time.[4] She was later acquitted of the charges.[3][5] During the trial, prosecutors used Martinez's poem "Nativity, For Two Salvadoran Women" in an attempt to build a case against her, a decision Martinez has called a "major error."[6]
Martinez has been associated with the Sanctuary Movement and with Enlace Comunitario, an Albuquerque-based organization that serves immigrant families experiencing domestic violence.[8]
Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry (includes the poem "Turning"), Bilingual Press/Review (Tempe, AZ), 1989 ISBN978-0916950910
MotherTongue, Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue (Tempe, AZ), 1994, translated into Spanish by Ana Maria de la Fuente and published as Lengua madre, Seix Barral (Barcelona, Spain), 1996 ISBN978-0345416568
Breathing between the Lines: Poems, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1997 ISBN978-0816517985
The Devil's Workshop, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 2002 ISBN978-0816521975
Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) ISBN978-0806137223
The Block Captain's Daughter (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) ISBN978-0806142913
1 2 3 4 Ndegeocello, Me'Shell (2009). "World Literature Today". The poet as political activist: a conversation with Demetria Martinez. Retrieved December 21, 2015– via Biography in Context.
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