Laura Villareal
Laura Villareal is the author of Girl’s Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022). She has received fellowships from the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and National Book Critics Circle. Her writing appears in Guernica, the American Poetry Review, Waxwing, AGNI, and elsewhere.
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Under the Crabgrass
A weed needs to be shown where not to go, what not to swarm. But we’ve let this one go unmanaged because, let’s face it, it’s better than the yellow husk of other varieties in this heat. Crabgrass, Digitaria sanguinalis, is a vine-like weed that overtakes everything, & I admit it’s kinda beautiful. The blades […]
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Small Town Dispatches: Laura Villareal
Welcome to Small Town Dispatches, a new feature on The Peak that recognizes the efforts of sustaining a writing practice in places with unconventional resources. In this installment, Special Features Editor Nadeen Kharputly interviews Shenandoah contributor Laura Villareal about living in Lockhart, Texas.