Laura Paul
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social
Author of Total Art (Lavender Ink) and Film Elegy (PRROBLEM Press) | http://instagram.com/laura_n_paul/ | laurapaulwriter.com | lavenderink.org/site/shop/total-art
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Laura Paul
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social
· Oct 18
✴️ TOTAL ART ✴️ A book against violence ✴️ Available this November from @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social ✴️ “All Harm Is Self Harm” ✴️
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In Total Art, Laura Paul wrestles with issues of art and violence in a book-length meditation spanning the mediums of painting, photography, movies, music, and more, at Lavender Ink / Diálogos
Inspired by the term Gesamtkunstwerk, the unification of multiple arts for one expressive aim, Laura Paul, in Total Art, pushes the limits of what it means to let art, or love, consume all of life unt...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
More here: www.lavenderink.org/site/shop/to...
✴️ TOTAL ART ✴️ A book against violence ✴️ Available this November from @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social ✴️ “All Harm Is Self Harm” ✴️
October 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
✴️ TOTAL ART ✴️ A book against violence ✴️ Available this November from @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social ✴️ “All Harm Is Self Harm” ✴️
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check it out: flyer i made for an Iowa City reading in which i am partaking.. 2 weeks from today—book launch for
@vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤
@vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
check it out: flyer i made for an Iowa City reading in which i am partaking.. 2 weeks from today—book launch for
@vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤
@vikhinao.bsky.social's MY ARDENT LOVE FOR THE PENCIL ... out today from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.. w/bluesky escapee @laura-n-paul.bsky.social!! be there or be all-too-geometrical ✏️👀🎤
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pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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"Death punctuates and punctures. It’s the ultimate period, the last sprocket hole. I’ve tried to show that viscerally. I’ve tried to show the hole; I’ve tried to point to the absence, the black, the end."
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...
Laura Paul
Throughout the book, I mention harm that has occurred in and around film sets in the name of art. Workers are hurt or killed, sacrificed for the sake of the end product, which is the moving image. One...
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March 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"Death punctuates and punctures. It’s the ultimate period, the last sprocket hole. I’ve tried to show that viscerally. I’ve tried to show the hole; I’ve tried to point to the absence, the black, the end."
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...
@laura-n-paul.bsky.social interviewed by Mike Corrao. www.full-stop.net/2025/03/25/i...
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📚 14. FILM ELEGY by Laura Paul. Poems, cleverly presented in the visual ratio of the cinematic image, floating in darkness. "The dimensions of a cremation . / A flicker | burning up the frame*****"
March 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
📚 14. FILM ELEGY by Laura Paul. Poems, cleverly presented in the visual ratio of the cinematic image, floating in darkness. "The dimensions of a cremation . / A flicker | burning up the frame*****"
Los Angeles! Next week! Catch me reading, signing FILM ELEGY at the PRROBLEM Press table, & writing poems on paper airplanes & throwing them over to @illepitaph.bsky.social at the @annulet.bsky.social table at AWP
March 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Los Angeles! Next week! Catch me reading, signing FILM ELEGY at the PRROBLEM Press table, & writing poems on paper airplanes & throwing them over to @illepitaph.bsky.social at the @annulet.bsky.social table at AWP
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March 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Happy Birthday to @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, truly the hardest working poet I've yet met.
Film, Friends, and Poetry with Laura Paul
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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February 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy Birthday to @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, truly the hardest working poet I've yet met.
Last day of our Chicago celebration! For my book Film Elegy, the films of Amy Halpern, community, collaboration, creative vision, & all sorts of good things that will continue on & on 📝✨🎞️
February 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Last day of our Chicago celebration! For my book Film Elegy, the films of Amy Halpern, community, collaboration, creative vision, & all sorts of good things that will continue on & on 📝✨🎞️
Chicago! See you again tonight @ Inga Bookshop! 🎞️ Part 2 of 3 ✨
February 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Chicago! See you again tonight @ Inga Bookshop! 🎞️ Part 2 of 3 ✨
Tonight! 🎞️✨At the Block Cinema at Northwestern University
February 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Tonight! 🎞️✨At the Block Cinema at Northwestern University
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Amy Halpern on FALLING LESSONS (1992), screening Friday at Block Cinema as part of PALM DOWN, a 3-day celebration of her work presented with @misterminsoo.bsky.social, @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, and Inga Bookshop. Clip is from a 2020 interview for the (S8) festival presented online. bit.ly/halp3rn
February 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Amy Halpern on FALLING LESSONS (1992), screening Friday at Block Cinema as part of PALM DOWN, a 3-day celebration of her work presented with @misterminsoo.bsky.social, @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, and Inga Bookshop. Clip is from a 2020 interview for the (S8) festival presented online. bit.ly/halp3rn
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Block Cinema joins w/ Pilsen's Inga Bookshop, @misterminsoo.bsky.social/Tone Glow, and poet @laura-n-paul.bsky.social for PALM DOWN, a three-day retrospective of experimental cinéaste Amy Halpern, whose filmography truly rewards a deep dive. Things kick off 2/21 with FALLING LESSONS: bit.ly/halp3rn
February 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Block Cinema joins w/ Pilsen's Inga Bookshop, @misterminsoo.bsky.social/Tone Glow, and poet @laura-n-paul.bsky.social for PALM DOWN, a three-day retrospective of experimental cinéaste Amy Halpern, whose filmography truly rewards a deep dive. Things kick off 2/21 with FALLING LESSONS: bit.ly/halp3rn
Chicago! February 21-23! A 3-day extravaganza of my book, FILM ELEGY & Amy Halpern retrospective! More here: nublockmuseum.blog/2025/01/31/b...
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Chicago! February 21-23! A 3-day extravaganza of my book, FILM ELEGY & Amy Halpern retrospective! More here: nublockmuseum.blog/2025/01/31/b...
This Saturday! New Orleans!
January 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This Saturday! New Orleans!
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Reading coming up in Denver w/ some friends who happen to be great writers too!
January 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Reading coming up in Denver w/ some friends who happen to be great writers too!
See u in LA on 12/7, cuties! 👋
November 25, 2024 at 2:04 AM
See u in LA on 12/7, cuties! 👋
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We have a podcast called Malarkey Public Radio. Check out the latest issue in which @ljabouttown.bsky.social and @renbolger.bsky.social and @laura-n-paul.bsky.social talk about death!
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open.spotify.com/episode/2kBA...
Just Death
Malarkey Public Radio · Episode
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November 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM
We have a podcast called Malarkey Public Radio. Check out the latest issue in which @ljabouttown.bsky.social and @renbolger.bsky.social and @laura-n-paul.bsky.social talk about death!
open.spotify.com/episode/2kBA...
open.spotify.com/episode/2kBA...
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New episode of Writing The Rapids is out! @laura-n-paul.bsky.social and I talk about poetry, film, Amy Halpern, and more!
Film, Friends, and Poetry with Laura Paul
Episode · Writing The Rapids · Joe is joined by Laura Paul to talk about her new book Film Elegy, mentoring under Amy Halpern, playing with text and images, and more!“Amy was a unique individual. Imme...
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September 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
New episode of Writing The Rapids is out! @laura-n-paul.bsky.social and I talk about poetry, film, Amy Halpern, and more!