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

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

For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and also the compulsions …

- 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 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'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

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

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