Clare L. Martin
Each success, no matter how small, in practice of what I love is a lightning strike against the dark.
I am a poet-mother-wife living with bipolar disease. I am a lifelong resident of Louisiana, and a graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. My creative writing has appeared most recently in Blue Fifth Review, Wheelhouse Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Inch and The Dead Mule, among others. I recently completed the manuscript for my first collection of poetry, Garbage Woman.
My mini-chapbook, Growing Into Myself, is up at The Dead Mule as part of Poems on the Odds. Be sure to read my “Southern Legitimacy Statement” and then click through to the poems. Thanks for the read!
Other bits about my writing life: I was a nominated finalist for the 2006 Farmhouse Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award, for my poem “4-way stop at dusk” which appeared in Farmhouse Magazine’s May/June 2006 issue. I am also the playwright of “Waterlines” produced in April and November of 2006, and in May 2007, as part of the project Sustained Winds, a collaboration of 40 Louisiana artists responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Sustained Windswas performed in New York City as part of FringeNYC 2007 in August 2007. Sustained Winds was performed at Festival International de Louisiane April 25, 2008.
Contact: martin.clarel(at)gmail(dot)com
All content in/on Orphans of Dark and Rain is © 2006-2008 by Clare L. Martin
~and a poem~
Orphans of Dark and Rain
I’m good at telling
sad stories:
orphans of dark and rain.
All of my gardens,
overgrown, unkempt;
flower with delusion.
The swath of fear
on my husband’s
face is familiar.
He can’t sleep
without reaching for me.
He saw the wolves
carry off my future,
feeding on it to fullness.
©2004 Clare L. Martin
