Laura MccunePoplin

writer. traveler. urban cyclist. assistant professor @BerkleeCollege.

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

“Birds don’t exist to teach us anything — they have their own purposes and their own complicated lives — but we are fools if we can’t learn something important for our purposes, too, for our own complicated lives…” https://t.co/L4tsB2fJ6K

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

Poem: I Am the Pace of My Body and Not Language https://t.co/g8q5CNccsH

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

In 800+ pages of murder and kidnapping and crime, the margins remained empty. But as soon as a rabbit is hurt, the readers of this library book protest.

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

My semester starts in four days. This is what denial looks like.

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

If I love my fake fireplace enough, will it become real?? #velveteenrabbit #amreading #hygge

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

To me, mailboxes = hope. But Anouilh’s version hope (that foul deceitful thing) as well as the optimistic, anything is possible kind. Like way back in the olden (my) days when college acceptance letters or query responses came by post. Those were dark days. And glorious ones.

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

So, technically, fiction writers should rule the world?!?
#amwritingfiction

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Although to be fair...they were more upset about the three weeks of lying about it before I finally confessed (thankfully the report card was still in the bottom of my bedroom trash can) than they were about the "D" I got in Social Studies.

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Review of Fatechanger, Reviewed by Pikasho Deka https://t.co/ld3Nxx3Agm

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Reviews are starting to come in. Waiting for book reviews feels depressingly similar to getting my middle school report cards. Like the one I threw away in sixth grade, hoping that my parents wouldn't notice (they did) and that I wouldn't get trouble (I did.)

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

#amreading

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I found the full moon in NYC. I much prefer its light to all the others.

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

“One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone’s words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture. Poetry was awfully good material to think with.” - Mary Stewart

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

Just walked past a garbage truck full of Christmas trees. It smelled SO GOOD!! My assumptions about the world have been proven wrong. Again.

[Laura MccunePoplin @lmpoplin1]

Anyone else remember when phone numbers had no area codes??

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Board to decide if bowling after midnight is OK in South Boston or if that's more of a Dorchester idea https://t.co/2OIcvxgFK4

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Who else has included their hamster in the acknowledgments section of their book??
#amwriting #Navithehamster

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Happy Birthday Tolkien. 🎂

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I just learned that another name for Vaughn’s Woods is Hobbit Land. #Tolkien

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In book one, Penn worked as a newsboy (and a pickpocket). In book two Penn works for a telegraph (sort of). Does anyone want to guess where she’ll be working in book three?? #Fatechanger