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Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering, three limited edition chapbooks, and a co-written chapbook with Toi Derricotte titled A Bruise is a Figure of Remembrance (Slapering Hol, 2020). Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, and Best American Essays 2019. Martin is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.


‘Sense’ a Poem by Dawn Lundy Martin

"Here, gorgeous desolation, and the first remembered sign
of one’s selfness."
August 25, 2020  By Dawn Lundy Martin
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