L. M. Poplin
Focusing Outward: Living Literary Citizenship in Community
(Originally published at https://www.bostonbookblog.com/articles/focusing-outward-living-literary-citizenship-in-community on July 16,...
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L. M. Poplin
- Aug 30, 2019
- 3 min
A Writer's Becoming
(Originally published at https://www.blackrosewriting.com/podcast/a-writers-becoming on June 15, 2019.) When I was fifteen, my father...
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L. M. Poplin
- May 9, 2019
- 3 min
Slow and Steady
I grew up in a family that was too poor to travel the world. Instead, we invited the world into our home and hosted exchange students who...
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L. M. Poplin
- Mar 22, 2019
- 3 min
The Gift of Not Choosing
Nobody warned me when I set out to become a writer that the job would require self-promotion. Not even in grad school, when I first...
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L. M. Poplin
- Feb 4, 2019
- 2 min
Community
If I had to choose between trying to sell a novel or writing a new one, I would choose writing a new one. Hands down. Every time. And yet...
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L. M. Poplin
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
What Writers Do
Since I’m not interesting enough to write memoir, and not scholarly enough to write non-fiction, I’ve staked my claim in the fictional...
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L. M. Poplin
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
Displaced
I have never really felt as though I belonged. At first I believed my sense of displacement was chronological, owing largely to my...
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