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 see from the well-traveled road. So, when I'm writing, I'm not thinking about audience at all. Instead, I'm trying to see behind those shrubs, down that hidden path. We're the weirdos of the world and there are so many weirdos.
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 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
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…
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
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 …
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…
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 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 ma… - Dawn Lundy Martin
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 ma…
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