Dawn Martin

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Didi Jackson |Dawn Martin

CHILDHOOD, NO. 2 Wasn’t the blue just endless, the sky I mean, that carried a band of jays to the lake’s edge, their clucks and whirs curling back upon their bodies like infinity itself, echoing off the water that sat as still as hammered steel as the sun, like a head without a neck, spun across the screen of sky—a giant orange claiming its inheritance of the firmament.

Jun 14, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Dawn Martin |Lidia Yuknavitch |Lena Valencia |Ruben Reyes Jr.

NO. 168 Summer 2024 ISSUE Arlene Shechet introduces bold color to “big sculpture.” Jeffrey Gibson brings an Indigenous road show to the US Pavilion in Venice. A new story from Lidia Yuknavitch. Poems by Dawn Lundy Martin. Plus, reflections on recent releases from Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ryan Chapman, Tracy O’Neill, and Tashi Wada—and so much more. ALL ISSUES Support BOMB's mission to deliver, publish, and preserve the artist's voice.

May 29, 2024 | yalereview.org | Dawn Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin We must make language of all forms of art together. What art produces is a different language—untranslatable. But then why want to ask questions when looking at art? Language happens to be how we know ourselves to exist. Or how we know we are unknowable. I am not sure if art, produces. Is it lonely then? Art? It’s both lonely, and a calling into the possibilities of shared. Art can’t ever be done. Then it must produce. It makes babies.

Dec 15, 2023 | 4columns.org | Dawn Martin

To Free the Captives Dawn Lundy Martin In her second memoir, Tracy K. Smith breaks free of the bonds of singularity and finds a radical vision of Black kinship. To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, by Tracy K. Smith, Knopf, 265 pages, $27•   •   •When and where does the speaking subject emerge as a speaking subject in Tracy K. Smith’s innovative new memoir, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul?

Oct 4, 2023 | seiu.org | Dawn Martin

By Dawn Martin, Medical Assistant with Kaiser Battle Ground Clinic in Washington State As a Medical Assistant with Kaiser, I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen the tour de force of my fellow workers when times get tough. I’ve seen my colleagues put it all on the line for their patients and for each other. On an everyday basis, we move quickly to keep appointments on track, and this can lead to mistakes, like a patient receiving the wrong immunization.