The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments when you think you see something but you're not sure you actually saw it in the end. The… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a way of opening up the part of the brain that makes poems. If I'm successful in this part… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“[I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]” — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes conflict. Regarding… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments when you… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road you can… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a way of… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
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