NEWS
Lia will be teaching at the
Breadloaf Writers' Conference in August 2013
"Prayer"
was published in The New Yorker. November 19, 2012
"Belief", "Gratitude" and "Accident" were published in the Georgia
Review (Athens, GA) Vol. LXVI #2,
Summer 2012
Forthcoming poems to
be published in 2013:
"Of Prayer" Ecotone. 2013
"Garden: Some Economies" Ironhorse. Fall 2013
"Summer Problem" Massachussetts Review. (Boston, MA) 2013
"Crape Myrtle" Orion. Fall 2013
“On Shadows” (an introduction to the work of Kate Breakey) was
published by University of Texas
Press/The Southwestern & Mexican
Photography Series. 2012
"Allegories" was published in
The New Yorker in October, 2012
American Primitive.
Crazyhorse. #82, Fall 2012
On “Carrion Comfort.” was published in Poetry East: Great Poems:
Contemporary Poets Reading
Masterpieces.” # 74 & 75. Spring
2012
Lia Purpura was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Lia's newest collection
of essays, Rough Likeness, (Sarabande Books) is now available!
Buy
This Book Now
There Are Things Awry Here was published in Best American Essays 2011.
On Coming Back as a Buzzard was awarded a 2010 Pushcart Award and named
a "Notable Essay" in
Best American Essays 2010.
Verb was featured on the New York Times, "On Language"
Column Website in October, 2010.
UPCOMING EVENTS: 2013
October 3 - University
of Arizona. Tucson, AZ
September 5-7 - Penn State University, Erie. Erie, PA
August 13 - 24 - Breadloaf Writing Conference. Middlebury, VT
April - McDaniel College. 27th B. Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecturer.
Westminster, MD
April 16 - Bloomsburg University. Bloombsburg, PA
March 8 - Associated Writing Programs Conference. Options of the I: the
Post-Memoir
Memoir & Essaying the Essay.
Boston, MA
February 11 - Furman University. Greenville, SC
RECENT READINGS
AND TALKS
October 16-21,
2012- Susquehanna University Visiting Writer. Susquehanna, PA
July 22- 27, 2012 - Hamline University
MFA Program. St. Paul, MN
February 15-18, 2012- Interlochen Center for the Arts Reading Series. Interlochen, MI
October 13, 2011 - University of Maine Reading Series. Farmington, ME
April 5, 2011 - Austin Peay University. Clarksville,
TN
March 7 -11, 2011 - Writer in Residence. Santa Catalina School.
Monterey, CA
February 2-5, 2011 - AWP Conference. Washington, D.C.
Panel: "What the
Narrator Doesn't Know: The Importance of Speculation."
Panel: "Tribute to
Orchises Press and Roger Lathbury."
November 3-6, 2010 - NonfictionNow! Conference. University of Iowa
November 4:
Sarabande Reading
November 6:
Panel: "Holding Back: Privacy and Disclosure in Nonfiction."
October 9, 2010 - Earth Project Reading. University of Baltimore
September 25, 2010 - "Sages of Baltimore" Reading. CityLit Festival,
Baltimore, MD
April 24, 2010 —Fordham University/Welcome Table Press Conference: In Praise of the Essay:
Form and Practice. Lecture: On Innovation. (www.welcometablepress.org)
April 17, 2010 – CityLit Reading, Baltimore, MD
April 15, 2010 – Holy Cross Reading Series, Holy Cross College, Boston, MA
April 12, 2010 – Keynote Address: Roland Park Elementary/Middle School “My Word Week”
April 9, 2010 —AWP Conference, Denver, CO., "Writing the Mind’s Wild Geography."
April 8, 2010 – AWP Conference, Denver, CO., "Rewriting Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet."
March 26, 2010 -- Keynote Address, Loyola University Undergraduate Research Colloquium,
Baltimore, MD
March 25, 2010 - University of Maryland Baltimore County (Seminar: Cultures of Display),
Catonsville, MD
March 2, 2010 - College of Santa Fe Reading Series,
Sante Fe, NM
April 6, 2009 - Keynote Speaker, The Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on
Creativity.
Eastman Conservatory. Rochester, NY
January 11, 2009 -
Bennington MFA Program (Talk: “On Sensibility”), Bennington, VT
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