Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading with Dawn Lundy Martin

At this event, Distinguished Writer in Residence Dawn Lundy Martin will read from her work. Introduced by Poet in Residence Michael Ives, the reading is free and open to the student body.

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist, and memoirist. She is the author of five 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; and Instructions for The Lovers (Nightboat Books, 2024). Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, and Best American Essays 2019 and 2021. Martin was a 2022 United States Artist Fellow, the inaugural Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair in English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the founding Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Currently, she is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. She is at work on a memoir, When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

Read more about Dawn Lundy Martin's work here. 

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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