Black Poetry Day

[Christine Landry]

*Black Poetry Day Tuesday, Oct. 17th at 7:30 PM Krinovitz Hall*
This year's poet is Dawn Lundy Martin. The author of four poetry
collections and editor of two anthologies, her book *Good Stock Strange
Blood* won the Kingsley Tufts Award. *Life in a Box is a Pretty Box* (2015),
in which Martin investigates what is produced in the interstices between
the body, experience, and language, and how alternative narratives can
yield some other knowledge about what it means to be black (or female, or
queer) in contemporary America, received the LAMBDA Award for Lesbian
Poetry. Maggie Nelson wrote: “Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a
real-time excavation of what poetry can and can’t do; how the past is never
past; how to stand in the blur, the ‘griefmouth’ of personal and collective
pain, and somehow make thought, make fury, make song.”

She is the co-editor of the seminal anthology *Letters to the Future: Black
WOMEN / Radical WRITING* (2018) and *The Fire This Time: Young Activists
and the New Feminism *(2004). Her writing can be found in numerous
publications, including The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, BOMB
Magazine, and Brooklyn Rail.

She is currently at work on a memoir. Martin is the recipient of numerous
awards including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Cave Canem Prize, the
Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian
Poetry. She is a Professor of English in the University of Pittsburgh’s
Writing Program, where she also serves as the director of the Center for
African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAP), which she co-founded with
Terrance Hayes in 2016. She resides in Brooklyn, NY and Pittsburgh, PA.

This event is made possible by charitable gifts to the Plattsburgh College
Foundation Black Poetry Day Endowment. Additional support is provided by
the Office of the President; Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; the
Redcay Honors Center; the New York State Writers Institute; and College
Auxiliary Services.
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*Christine Landry*
Administrative Assistant
Honors Program, Hawkins 123
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
phone: 518.564.3075
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