Hi! I’m Lauren Haldeman. I am the author of the poetry collection Calenday (Rescue Press, 2014). I work as the web developer, web designer and editor for this website, as well as several other websites, including the Writing University website...
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While I was gathering together the poems that would eventually make Calenday, I found an old composition notebook, replete with scraggly notes and strange stains, from the first few months of E's life. Things were crazy then! Crazy and heavily embarrassing. So I am typing them up...
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One of my comics, 'Jealous', was the Featured Comic at The Rumpus in February! Take a look here. (It is based on a poem from my collection Calenday.) I had been working on this comic for several months, drawing the outlines, creating the sketches,...
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Following an excellent workshop at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, my students embarked out into the world with their own brand-new websites. During the class, we wrote listicles, diary posts, photo posts and more. Here is the round-up of newly-minted bloggers, joining the...
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OK. Probably a mistake, but I thought it might be fun to turn a few of the poems from Calenday into comics. It has been years since I drew comics. I stopped doing them after I realized that being able to draw...
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