News, Events, & New Selected Work

NEWS & EVENTS

I’ll be leading a MAKESHOP (not a workshop!) at the amazing Good Contrivance Farm in Reisterstown, MD on Saturday 2/22/25. Here’s the link for a description and  tickets:

Lia Purpura’s Makeshop: February 22, 2025

AND: On April 26, 2025 at 1 pm. I’ll be leading a “Writing into the Natural World” makeshop at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD. More on that event, to come!

 

SELECTED RECENT WORK

  • “Blue Balloon in White Pine” – essay forthcoming in Orion
  • “My Dog Doesn’t Know It’s Her Birthday” –  essay forthcoming in The Southern Review
  • “In the Age of Object” and “Cicada Killing Wasp and Cicada” forthcoming in Ploughshares
  • No Measures But in Likeness – essay forthcoming in Dark Mountain Project
  • “Anthropomorphism Today” – essay in The Harvard Review #62
  • “My Deaths” – essay in Terrain  https://www.terrain.org/2024/nonfiction/my-deaths/
  • “Liche: An Anti-Apocalyptic” – essay in About Place: https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-more-than-human-world/awe/lia-purpura/
  • “Owl: An Imaginary” – essay in Agni Magazine https://agnionline.bu.edu/essay/owl-an-imaginary/
  • “Walk with Meadow (as Friend) and Friend (as Meadow) – essay in Orion: https://orionmagazine.org/issue/autumn-2022/
  • Imaging Burial — Emergence Magazine (essay)
  • https://emergencemagazine.org/story/imagining-burial/
  • A portfolio of poems from PLUME: https://plumepoetry.com/a-brief-portfolio-12/
  • “The Creatures of the World Have Not Been Chastened” (essay) Emergence Magazine: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-creatures-of-the-world-have-not-been-chastened/