Entry Points Ep. 8 - Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist whose current creative-scholarly work operates at the intersection of experimental poetics, video installation, and performance.  She is the author of four books of poems including most recently: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry. Martin is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of African American Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. A new book of poems, Instructions for The Lovers, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books and her memoir, When a Person Goes Missing, is forthcoming from Pantheon Books.