{"id":553,"date":"2021-06-15T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=553"},"modified":"2021-06-15T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:23:57","slug":"dawn-lundy-martin-week-4-february-1st-2017-from-1130-100pm-in-lecture-hall-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/dawn-lundy-martin-week-4-february-1st-2017-from-1130-100pm-in-lecture-hall-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Lundy Martin: Week 4 \u2013 February 1st, 2017 from 11:30-1:00pm in Lecture Hall 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dawn Lundy Martin<\/a> is a poet, essayist, and conceptual video artist. She is the author of three books of poems and three chapbooks, including most recently, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life<\/em> (Nightboat Books 2015) and Good Stock Strange Blood<\/em> (forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2017). She is currently at work on a memoir. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>, Harper\u2019s<\/em>, and other magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin is also a co-founder of the Black Took Collective, an experimental performance art\/poetry group of three, and a member of HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, a global arts collective. She has been awarded the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and a 2016 Investing in Professional Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowments. Martin is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Co-director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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