English Writer in Residence Lia Purpura is featured in the November 24 edition of The New Yorker. The magazine published her poem “Study with Melon.” You can read the poem in The New Yorker by clicking here. The full text of the poem is below: Study with Melon The stem end of a melon is weblike, form finding a pattern that’s thinking itself a density a concentration beginning a line then casting it out and moving on from, an order established, a gesture complete. Completion: how someone at a distance might see it. In addition, Purpura’s essay “In The Despoiled and Radiant Now” appears …