News, Events, & Selected Work

NEWS & EVENTS

Lia’s new collection of essays, All the Fierce Tethers (Sarabande Books) is out!  Recent and upcoming readings include:

• 9/26/2019 — Pratt Library Writers Live! Series (Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD)
• 10/10 — Fall for the Book Festival (3 pm, George Mason University, Fairfax VA)
• 12/8– HOT L Reading Series, Baltimore MD
• 2/20/20 – Bird in Hand Bookstore (7 pm, Baltimore, MD)
• 3/19 – VCU Reading Series (Richmond, VA)
• 3/4-7 – AWP panel and reading (TBA)
• 4/16 – University of Cincinnati Reading Series (Cincinnati, OH)
• 6/12-16 – Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference (Kachemak Bay, AK)

SELECTED RECENT WORK

• Imaging Burial — Emergence Magazine (essay)
• https://emergencemagazine.org/story/imagining-burial/
• “Walk with Snowy Things” — Agni #85, Fall 2017 (essay)
• “Church Of” — Tin House (poem) 2018
• “All the Fierce Tethers” — New England Review, #37 Winter, 2016 March (essay)
• “Scream, or Never minding” — Georgia Review LXIX #3 Fall/Winter 2015 (essay) & Pushcart Anthology XLI 2017
• New Yorker podcast: Lia Purpura reads her own work and Carl Phillips’. June 21, 2017
• “My Eagles” — Orion Vol. 34 #2 2015 (essay)
• “Metaphor Journal” — Harvard Review, Spring 2014
• “Beginning” — New Yorker, April 29, 2013 (poem)
• “Brief Treatise Against Irony” — Agni, #77, Spring 2013 (essay)
• “Prayer” — New Yorker, November 19, 2012 (poem)
• “Allegories” — New Yorker, October 1, 2012 (poem)