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 or nail down gender or race, for that matter.
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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 o… - Dawn Lundy Martin
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 o…
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
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…
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 gi… - Dawn Lundy Martin
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 gi…
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
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…
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