{"id":75,"date":"2018-04-24T01:12:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:51:35","slug":"dawn-lundy-martin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/dawn-lundy-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Lundy Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2018\/04\/Dawn_lundy_martin_4162671-1-e1524528345470-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Martin onstage standing in front of a microphone\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2018\/04\/Dawn_lundy_martin_4162671-1-e1524528345470-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/westernmassqtwriters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2018\/04\/Dawn_lundy_martin_4162671-1-e1524528345470-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin in 2016 at Split This Rock poetry festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4><strong>Bio<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dawn Lundy Martin earned a\u00a0PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is now a professor at the University of Pittsburg where she also serves as the director of the\u00a0Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to poetry, Martin is known for her activism and prose essays. She is co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation in New York, a \u00a0grant-making organization led by young women and trans youth, focusing on social justice activism.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, Martin co-founded the Black Took Collective, a group of young black poets who explore experimental poetics using critical race, gender, and sexuality theory.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Selected Bibliography<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><em>the morning hour<\/em> (Poetry Society of America, 2003)<\/li>\n<li><em>the undress<\/em> (Belladonna, 2006)<\/li>\n<li><em>A Gathering of Matter\/A Matter of Gathering<\/em> (U of Georgia P, 2007). Winner of Cave Canem Poetry Prize)<\/li>\n<li><em>Candy<\/em> (Albion Books, 2011)<\/li>\n<li><em>Discipline<\/em> (Nightboat Books, 2011). Winner of Nightboat Books Prize<\/li>\n<li><em>Life in a Box is a Pretty Life<\/em> (Nightboat Books, 2015)<\/li>\n<li><em>Good Stock, Strange Blood<\/em> (2017)<sup id=\"cite_ref-:1_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><b>Recommended<\/b><strong>\u00a0Works:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/88735\/our-wandering\">Our Wandering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/57928\/dear-one-the-sea-\">[Dear one, the sea&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/american-middle-class\">The American middle class&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2013\/06\/what-does-somethingness-afford\">What Does Somethingness Afford?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/issue-30\/politics\/when-a-person-goes-missing\/\">When a Person Goes Missing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Links<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/video\/dawn-lundy-martin-poetry-reading\">Reading at Cornell University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writing.pitt.edu\/people\/faculty\/dawn-lundy-martin\">University of Pittsburg Faculty Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/dawn-lundy-martin\">Poetry Foundation Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/poetry\/interviews\/dawnlundymartin.html\">Library of Congress Interview\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2017\/01\/the-rumpus-interview-with-dawn-lundy-martin\/\">The Rumpus Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lannan.georgetown.edu\/2013\/08\/black-took-collective\">Information on Black Took Collective<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bio Dawn Lundy Martin earned a\u00a0PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is now a professor at the University of Pittsburg where she also serves as the director of the\u00a0Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. In addition to poetry, Martin is known for her activism and prose essays. 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