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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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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