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 even if it may be difficult to see th…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

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 persi…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interes…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

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 barely…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

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 poem…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

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 fil…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

I've long been a fan of Adrian Piper's work. I find her performance pieces moving in their willingness to lean toward the absurd. Yet, there's a soci…

- Dawn Lundy Martin

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…

- Dawn Lundy Martin