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    L. M. Poplin
    • Aug 30, 2019
    • 9 min

    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, 20...

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    L. M. Poplin
    • Aug 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    A Writer's Becoming

    (Originally published at https://www.blackrosewriting.com/blog/a-writers-becoming on June 15, 2019.) When I was fifteen, my father diagno...

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    L. M. Poplin
    • May 10, 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 disco...

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    L. M. Poplin
    • Feb 4, 2019
    • 2 min

    Community

    February 3, 2016 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. Ev...

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    L. M. Poplin
    • Feb 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    What Writers Do

    March, 28, 2015 Since I’m not interesting enough to write memoir, and not scholarly enough to write non-fiction, I’ve staked my claim in ...

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    L. M. Poplin
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Displaced

    May 17, 2013 I have never really felt as though I belonged. At first I believed my sense of displacement was chronological, owing largely...

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