#dawn lundy martin

[geryone]

Good Stock Strange Blood, Dawn Lundy Martin

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[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

The contours of the girl blur. She is both becoming and fact.

Dawn Lundy Martin, Violent Rooms

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[blackqueernotables]

Dawn Lundy Martin: Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics; Winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry.

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[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

To say that one has seen a ghost is not necessarily to experience a haunting. To be haunted is to refuse, be it actively with one’s own permission or without. In this latter case when one is haunted without one’s own permission, I think of it as a compelled haunting.

This is the dream of a melancholic. The lost object is so shiny, the attraction undeniable [impossibility in severing attachment]. We must become it. Must hold it  so close we take it inside of ourselves. Thus, the knocking in the throat like a second heart.

All the poetry I’ve ever written is compelled by a single series of events. The attempt to write them, in all their fractured and fracturing glory, is believe it or not, an act of forgetting. And, inside a narrow silver tube that runs the core of me from the top of my head to my left most toe is where I hold the loss. The poem, then, is in a perpetual state of collapse in its refusal to be unhaunted. The silver tube of loss gets stuffed and re-stuffed, extractions from memory into text into—

Impossibility in further deciphering the silver tube, its purpose, how it’s a place held within and apart…

What else can be put into the hole [self]?

It's not easy work, lifting the shovel and stuffing the hole, but it must be done. This labor produces in me something akin to exaltation or joy. This is what I mean when I say sadomasochism. If language is caught between the thing or experience or the self and the text it howls into the mouth of the chasm until it is defeated and spent, it staggers around until it has knocked itself cold. Perhaps this is what produces joy, this working toward.

- “But What About Haunting?” by Dawn Lundy Martin 

#writing #haunting #hauntology #Dawn Lundy Martin #ghosts

[nepobabyeurydice]

Shed the machine. Must be entirely flesh to fight. Must be strategy instead of filling.

— Dawn Lundy Martin, Dear one, the sea

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[willgaham]

SUCCESSION 2018-2023 the roy siblings + quotes

3.02 / franz kafka, letters to milena / 4.09 / dawn lundy martin, good stock strange blood / 4.10 / marie howe, the teacher / 4.09 / vievee francis, forest primeval / 4.10 / anne sexton, a self-portrait in letters / 3.09 / @tullispink

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[soupmetal666]

TRANSGENDER, NONBINARY, GENDERQUEER and TWO-SPIRIT POETS YOU SHOULD READ!

Here's a non-exhaustive list in alphabetical order by author last name. The majority listed here have published full-length poetry collections and/or chapbooks, but some have not, and have published poems in publications you can find online. Some also write in other genres, as well, and/or make art in other mediums. Consider reblogging it and adding to it if you so desire. My background is primarily in "academic" poetry, for better or worse, and I'm less knowledgeable about slam poetry/poets who don't publish in avenues approved by the academy or are not in academic circles. I've only listed poets here whose work I have read. So there are certainly people worth reading that I'm missing.

Andrea Abi-Karam

Samuel Ace

Jada Renée Allen

Justice Ameer

Ryka Aoki

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Noah Baldino

Ari Banias

Kay Ulanday Barrett

Oliver Baez Bendorf

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Stephanie Burt

Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Jos Charles

Ching-In Chen

Travis Hedge Coke

CAConrad

jayy dodd

J Jennifer Espinoza

T. Fleischmann

Kay Gabriel

Aeon Ginsberg

torrin a. greathouse

Kamden Hilliard

Stephen Ira

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Rickey Laurentiis

Dawn Lundy Martin

Noor Ibn Najam

Trace Peterson

Raquel Salas Rivera

Trish Salah

Danez Smith

TC Tolbert

Chrysanthemum Tran

Joshua Whitehead

Kit Yan

In addition, two wonderfully edited trans poetry anthologies published by Nightboat Books that include many of these writers' work:

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson

We Want it All: A Radical Anthology of Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel

Also, some online literary journals regularly publishing trans and nonbinary poetry:

https://foglifterjournal.com/

https://www.peachmgzn.com/

https://beestungmag.com/

The current moment is a very exciting time for trans poetics. These are brilliant poets and thinkers publishing work that's worth your time. Poetry is not everyone's cup of tea, certainly, but I wish more people knew about how many awesome trans poets are out there right now making amazing and important art.

#poetry #trans writers #trans literature #trans poetry #transgender poets #nonbinary poets #genderqueer poets #two-spirit poets #trans poetics #resource #books #reading #transgender poetry

[artbookdap]

Hot book pics from @baltimorephotospace ・・・#Repost What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life. This powerful collection highlights the importance of snapshots in Black American life: as tools to challenge stereotypes, and as a way to document family and culture Thoughtfully illustrated, this volume highlights a selection of photographs of African American family life between the 1970s and the early 2000s—pictures that were lost by their original owners and then found by the artist Zun Lee on a street in Detroit in 2012, marking the beginning of the Fade Resistance collection of more than 4,000 Polaroids. Lee describes the collection as an important record of Black visual self-representation and a means to “reflect the way Black people saw themselves on their terms—without the intention of being seen, or judged, by others.” To Lee, these powerful photographs are an expression of "Black life mattering." These vivid images chronicle milestones such as weddings, birthdays and graduations, as well as quiet daily moments, offering contemporary views long ignored or erased by mainstream culture. Together, these works highlight the role snapshots have played in Black life, as tools to challenge stereotypical portrayals and as a means to memorialize family, culture and heritage. Topics such as self-representation, visual history and the social power of photographs are addressed in critical texts by Sophie Hackett, Stefano Harney, Zun Lee and Fred Moten, and an original contribution by celebrated poet Dawn Lundy Martin. @delmonico_books @agotoronto https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXZQOQJFgh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost

[sfsucw]

2022 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize

Ends on November 14, 2022

Since 2015, Cave Canem has collaborated with O, Miami to spotlight exceptional chapbook-length manuscripts by Black poets. The winner of the prize receives a $1000 award, publication of their manuscript by O, Miami Books, 10 copies of the chapbook, a residency in The Writer’s Room at The Betsy Hotel in Miami, and a featured reading at the O, Miami Poetry Festival in April. Previous judges were: Robin Coste Lewis; Dawn Lundy Martin; Ross Gay; Major Jackson; Danez Smith; Mahogany L. Browne; and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

For more info - https://cavecanem.submittable.com/submit/532a1d4c-1695-414d-b6d5-842033758bc5/2022-toi-derricotte-cornelius-eady-chapbook-prize

#chapbook #chapbook prize #contest #manuscript #poets #poetry

[geryone]

Good Stock Strange Blood, Dawn Lundy Martin

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[notchainedtotrauma]

What speech do we have when we are crawling around on your kitchen floor ?

from The body grieves in its heart chest- by Dawn Lundy Martin

#Dawn Lundy Martin #Good Stock Strange Blood #we seize horror as we bow #antiblackness as the foundation of the world

[poetsandwriters]

Dawn Lundy Martin in “Vagrant & Vulnerable,” featured in the September/October 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

#Dawn Lundy Martin #Inspiration #Quotes #Writer's Block #Writing #Poetry #Writer's Community #Nicole Sealey #Vagrant #Vulnerable #Magazine

[lifeinpoetry]

What would the poem be without wings to block out the light?

Dawn Lundy Martin, from “Nothingness,” published in Poem-a-Day

#quote #Dawn Lundy Martin #poetry #poem-a-day #out of my collection #Nothingness

[smallpressdistribution]

"A desire to rip the bottom out of experience — these bodies, they say, are ungovernable." 

-Dawn Lundy Martin 

Good Morning, Internet! 

XO, SPD

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[wanderingandactingout]

Maybe it’s a question about black creativity, without a desire to reduce blackness to a knowable quality of being. I’m referencing the creative impulse and ability to make something in the midst of attack, annihilation, deportation, absence of water, absence of healthcare, and so on. This strikes me as akin to an escape from the inescapable.

Dawn Lundy Martin in conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten

#the idea of Black performance in the everyday #Dawn Lundy Martin #LaToya Ruby Frazier #Fred Moten #the complex narratives of Black performance

[bostonpoetryslam]

Language feels too bulky to speak to trauma. What happens when we open our mouths to speak it? Out comes dust. Blathering. A cry. A stammer. A circling, a return again and again to try to say what happened.

Dawn Lundy Martin, in conversation with Nicole Sealey for Poets & Writers

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