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 wolves carry off my future, feed on it to fullness. 

Clare L. Martin 

I am a poet, mother and wife.

My debut poetry collection, Eating the Heart First, will be published by Press 53 Fall 2012 as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.

My poetry has appeared in Avatar Review, Poets and Artists, Blue Fifth Review, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, among others.  Poems of mine have been included in the anthologies: The Red Room: Writings from Press 1, Best of Farmhouse Magazine Vol. 1, 2011 Press 53 Spotlight ,and Beyond Katrina.  My poems have been nominated for Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web (2011) for Best New Poets and Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net.

I am a graduate of  University of Louisiana at Lafayette (formerly USL) and lifelong Louisiana resident. I have written for theatre in collaboration with the company Acting Up (in Acadiana.)  

I am a Teaching Artist through the Acadiana Center for the Arts, founder of the “Voices” reading series in Lafayette, LA and a member of the Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective, Inc.

Some of my work that has been published online can be read via the links here. 

Each success, no matter how small, in practice of what I love is a lightning strike against the dark.

All content of Orphans of Dark and Rain is © 2006-2012 by Clare L. Martin