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Laura Villareal

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Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving, (University of Wisconsin Press 2022) was awarded Texas Institute of Letters' John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry and the Writers' League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. ​She earned an MFA at Rutgers University—Newark and has been the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, National Book Critics Circle’s Emerging Critics Program, VONA, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program at University of Texas-Austin.

She is currently an associate with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studi
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The Cartography of Sleep

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A Portrait in Blues

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Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2018
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“… i promised myself never to look into the past
but on perfect summer days i get anxious i want to begin again”
Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“once upon a time i decided love was too much like drowning
made myself an island where if i scream out the ocean swallows
entire cities until i see my suffering is small enough to cradle
before miracles went extinct...”
Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

“you look at me like I'm deserving
of real care & devotion, the kind
i've given but never seen up close
until you i didn't know how
to hold a miracle i often think
i need to make my needs small
enough they hide under my giving”
Laura Villareal, Poems to Carry in Your Pocket

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