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 way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my… — 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 how the quotidian makes its way into the work, it's all of it, in a way. Like, when I'm writing poems, I'm just picking up scraps of whatever is happening around me - a geographical location,… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share
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 with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share
With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share
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 we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share
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 needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share
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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