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Laura S. Marshall
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poet, editor, educator. honourary canadian. work in the normal school, south dakota review, bennington review, okay donkey, trampset, etc. lsmarshall.com (she/they)
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Ironic to post it here, I know, but it's so good I can't help it. From Maggie Smith (@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)'s book, Goldenrod: bookshop.org/a/862/978198...

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November 14, 2024 at 11:30 PM
This workshop is two weeks from today! Sign up now! ✨
I'm teaching a poetry class online next month! You can sign up here: www.threshold-academy.com/classes/p/li...
April 7, 2024 at 7:56 PM
I'm teaching a poetry class online next month! You can sign up here: www.threshold-academy.com/classes/p/li...
March 27, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone
These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.
One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back.  Another dream of mine is to have a ��...
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December 21, 2023 at 8:35 PM
New poems published last week in The Normal School: "Boneyard," based on my medical adventures including having coral implanted in my jaw when it was rebuilt, and "Decay (Taphonomy)," a meditation on depression and mortality and how we keep going anyway. www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2023/12...
Two Poems by Laura S. Marshall — The Normal School
"The doctors call me ugly,/ draw over my bone structure,/ trace the routes where the/ coral will fuse."
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December 19, 2023 at 9:30 PM
Five new poems out in Two Hawks Quarterly this month. Thank you to the editors for including my words in the Fall 2023 issue, and to everyone who reads them. twohawksquarterly.com
December 13, 2023 at 12:50 AM
Tried to take some holiday photos of my cats ... These are two of the outtakes.
December 2, 2023 at 9:30 PM
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December 2, 2023 at 3:08 PM
The world is heavy these days, but this is a spot of light. Big thanks to the editors of trampset for publishing "Flat," and for the nomination. 💫

My story: trampset.org/flat-cb8a5c5...

Nominees: trampset.org/2024-best-mi...
November 22, 2023 at 12:46 AM
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November 8, 2023 at 7:24 PM
An erasure from my latest rejection ...
November 3, 2023 at 8:52 AM
We've had this candy corn cat hut for three years now. This is the first time Cub has deigned to spend any time in it. 💛🧡🤍🖤
October 22, 2023 at 4:02 PM
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tomorrow. please join as we gather, read, and fundraise 🍉

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October 17, 2023 at 2:15 PM
I am so worn these days I can't tell whether this means a break FOR poetry or a break FROM poetry. And, honestly, both work.
Your doctor just called and said, for your well being, you should take a short poetry break. 🩵
October 5, 2023 at 8:46 PM
My poem "Naming," from 8 Poems, issue 27: 8poems.com/issue-27/#/n...
October 1, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Sharing my poem "Grief Song," published in Impossible Archetype, issue 13: impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/1278-2/
September 29, 2023 at 11:46 AM