Flash Briefing: Laura Paul reads "To Have a Body" from Shirley Magazine on The Poetry Vlog

The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

This episode is part of a month-long literary journal, podcast, and YouTube teaching collaboration with Shirley Magazine, a fiction and hybrid forms magazine in Portland, OR. Editors Colleen and Lauren present selections from previous publications of the journal, leading up to a longer episode on the launch of the latest issue.

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Today's reader: Laura Paul reading "To Have a Body."

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Link to full piece:

Issue 9, December 2017: http://www.shirleymag.com/s/Issue-9-archive.pdf

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About Laura Paul:

Laura Paul is a writer living in Los Angeles. Previously, her work has been published by the Brooklyn Rail, Entropy Magazine, Shirley Magazine, Soft Cartel, and featured at the West Hollywood Book Fair and Los Angeles Zine Fair. She is the author of Entropy Magazine's monthly horoscope column, Stars to Stories, and since June 2018 she's been filming a weekly video series of her poetry at poemvideo.com. Raised in Sacramento, she earned her B.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle and her Master's degree from UCLA. She can be found at laurapaulwriter.com and on Twitter and Instagram as @laura_n_paul

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More about Shirley Magazine: http://www.shirleymag.com/

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