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The New Yorker Publishes Poem by Professor Monica Ferrell

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0500

"The Fifties" is part of her upcoming book The Future.

Andres Cordoba ’19 Awarded Distinguished Fellowship for Gifted Poets

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0400

Cordoba has been named a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

Notable Authors in Conversation

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500

Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award, presented a conversation with National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy. The Durst Lecture Series brings powerful names in literature to campus every year.

Author Jiaming Tang ’18 Discusses Debut Novel

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:00:00 -0400

Tang's return to campus was part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series.

Debut Novel by Emily Ruth Verona ’12 With Nods to Cinema

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:00:00 -0400

The New York Times describes Midnight on Beacon Street as "an impressive debut."

Lecturer Carlie Hoffman Wins National Jewish Book Award

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:00:00 -0400

Hoffman won the Berru Poetry Award in Memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash for When There Was Light.

Debut Novel by Jiaming “Andy” Tang ’18 Coming in 2024

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Cinema Love will be published by Dutton Books and John Murray Press in 2024.

Poem by Professor Monica Ferrell Published in The New Yorker

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 04:00:00 -0400

"Infancy" was published in this week's print edition.

Novel by Creative Writing Alum Acquired by Soho Teen

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Congratulations to Francesca Padilla '07 (Creative Writing) for her debut work What's Coming to Me.

Creative Writing Alumni Trio Launch a Literary Venture

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:00:00 -0400

The inaugural issue of Brown Sugar will release on November 27.

Italics Mine Has Launched

Fri, 22 May 2020 04:00:00 -0400

The Lily Lieb Port Creative Writing Program proudly presents issue 17 of Italics Mine.

Monica Ferrell Finalist for Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Thu, 06 Feb 2020 05:00:00 -0500

For the Associate Professor of Creative Writing's book, You Darling Thing.

Purchase Students Earn SUNY Arts Awards

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Two Purchase seniors were recently honored with the SUNY-wide Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award.

Jazz Performers Inspired by Poetry

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

On Wednesday, April 10, an audience packed the Neuberger Museum of Art's Center Gallery to hear jazz musicians interpret the poetry of Kevin Young.

Danniel Schoonebeek ’08 Earns NEA Award

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0500

The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing (Poetry) Fellowship is $25,000.

Creative Writer Wins Prestigious Contest

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Jiaming "Andy" Tang '18 earns a Breakout 8 Writers Prize.

Author Neil Gaiman Offered Advice for Students

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 05:00:00 -0500

This year's Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature, Michael Chabon, welcomed his longtime friend, Neil Gaiman, for a wide-ranging and warm discussion.

Journalism Professor Pays it Forward

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Andrew Salomon has endowed a fund for aspiring journalists.

Durst Lectures Feature Top Authors

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0400

The only two Americans to have ever won the prestigious Man Booker Prize both spoke at Purchase in 2017.

Acclaimed Novelists Kick Off the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Katie Katamura, author of A Separation, and Hari Kunzru, whose most recent novel is White Tears spoke to a rapt audience on September 13.

Purchase Dubbed a Music Scene

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Cende is the latest band formed at Purchase to garner acclaim.

Christine Hennessey ’04

Tue, 16 May 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Digital marketer by day and blogger and author by early morning.

Danniel Schoonebeek ’08 Releases Second Book to Critical Acclaim

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Trebuchet is the author's second book of poems.

We Hate Movies: An Improv Podcast

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:00:00 -0400

Alumni Chris Cabin, Andrew Jupin, Stephen Sajdak, and Eric Szyszka have been watching movies, and humorously criticizing them, since their days at Purchase.