A De-Composition Writing Workshop
Tatter of nest with tatter of eggshell (with red thread).
Program Details
As a poet and essayist, Lia Purpura is interested in all forms of repair, regeneration, and ongoingness. In this De-Composing workshop attendees will work with what’s left behind (pods, bones, lichen, wasp nests, memories) valuing what’s often overlooked and diminished, and recombining parts in surprising, mysterious ways. We’ll talk about the full ecology of the writing process, with less emphasis on an end product and more joy in the various stages of continuous creation and undoing. Registration information is forthcoming.
Location
Park Hall
Upstairs library
307 Polk Street
Sauk City, WI 53583
- Registered workshop
- Inside
Contributor
Lia Purpura (she/her)
http://www.liapurpura.com
Instagram: @liapurpura1
Lia Purpura is the author of nine collections of essays, poems, and translations. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for On Looking (essays, Sarabande Books), her awards include Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as five Pushcart Prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and others. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Agni, Emergence, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, MD, where she served as Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Loyola University. She has taught in the Rainier Writing Workshop’s MFA program, at Breadloaf Writers Conference, The University of Iowa’s Nonfiction MFA program and at conferences, workshops, and graduate programs throughout the country. Her newest collection of poems is It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin) and her latest collection of essays is All the Fierce Tethers (Sarabande Books).