I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion,… — Dawn Lundy Martin Believe Copy Share Image
“[I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]” — Dawn Lundy Martin Silence Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes… — Dawn Lundy Martin Affair 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Film 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Anxiety 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Blur 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Art 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Gender 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Art 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Audience 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Art 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… — Dawn Lundy Martin Boring Copy Share Image
I've long been a fan of Adrian Piper's work. I find her performance pieces moving in their willingness to lean toward the… — Dawn Lundy Martin Absurd Copy Share Image
When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that… — Dawn Lundy Martin Audience Copy Share Image
For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and… — Dawn Lundy Martin Book Copy Share Image
