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 give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.
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
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…
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…
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 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 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'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'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…
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