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#TRUESTsem Part Four (16-20)

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Hi! I'm Lara. Welcome to my virtual home!

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First residency is in the books! I just have to write ~184 pages and read 40-50 books now. I'd very much like to sleep for 2 days, but I'm back to work in a few hours! Let's see if I can be a morning person now...

Still in shock/wonder/gobsmackdom that I'll be working with Gene Luen Yang this semester on a new graphic novel script. The man is a legend. He's also really nice! Now excuse me for the next 6 months while I attempt to prove (mostly to myself) that I can write another book. *rummaging* There's got to be another graphic novel in here somewhere... #HamlineMFAC #GENEius

I've been spending nights at home, but I've barely seen my kids! Not even this fluffbutt. I'm a residency wraith for a few more days yet! #NevilleShortquarters #havanese #havaneseofinstagram

New profile for a while since it's hard to identify people by an illustration 🤓

Rediscovering MAKING SHAPELY FICTION by Jerome Stein, one of my favorites from undergrad. Hoping one of these 15 shapes can help bring form to some of the ideas I have for next semester.

Capt visited me on campus so we could pretend it was 11 years ago, when we fell in luuuuuuuuurvvvveeee philosophizing on the lawn over lunch and cloud pictography but didn't do anything about it for a whole year of internal unrequited love angst. 😍

"Sometimes it feels / all I'm worth is under my skirt // and not between my ears. / Sometimes I feel / that turning the other cheek // could get someone like my brother killed." I just opened up a page and typed in one part I underlined, but I could pick from any note on any page, and it would be worth sharing. Let me tell you, I haven't marked up lit like this since undergrad and I've been reading academically again for months. Sometimes seeing how a word is set on the page sets it deeper in your soul. I can not wait to teach this novel in verse. Will this baby be the merengue-thumping heart of my critical thesis next year? So much to unpack. I'll just give one hint, one small, simple spot to start: look for the couplets. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Content warning: religious triggers (as in, if you're afraid of questions and confessions, this will scare you. As in, portrayals of forced repentance, painful "piety"), sexual harassment, familial sexism (boy did this one RESONATE), some self & consensual sexual content #thepoetx #novelinverse #versenovel #elizabethacevedo #epicreads

First day of school! #HamlineMFAC

2018 is halfway over! Here are the books I remember reading. May was a heavy revision month, and June has been residency prep. Lots of these are comics and picture books. I'll post my favorites from June soon! 📚📗📘📙📖 #booksiread #booksireadin2018

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