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Talk at AAUW (American Association of University Women)

“Don’t Just Live Your Life—Write It” 11 AM Tuesday, April 30, 2024 AAUW (American Association of University Women) 990 Summit Ave, St Paul, MN 55105

Prague Summer Program for Writers

July 6 – July 31, 2024 Member of the permanent faculty

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

August 10 – 20, 2016

The Florist’s Daughter

Newsday’s Favorite Books 2007 Minnesota Book Award Winner Midwest Booksellers’ Association Choice Award Honor Book “The result is electric and alive, containing a fire her mother would surely recognize and a beauty her father would approve . . . . …. Continue Reading →

Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

This meditation on the odalisque figure in Western art opens with Patricia Hampl’s discovery, as a young woman, of a Matisse painting in the Chicago Art Institute: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen… Continue Reading →

I Could Tell You Stories

In this timely collection, Ms. Hampl “weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she considers the habit of autobiographical writing that enchants and bedevils her. Hampl reflects on her family’s response to… Continue Reading →

A Romantic Education

This memoir, described by Doris Grumbach as “unusually elegant and meditative,” is once more available with an updated “Afterword” by the author. Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Ms. Hampl first went there during the dark days of the Cold… Continue Reading →

Spillville

Antonin Dvorak’s summer 1893 stay in Spillville, Iowa is the point of departure for this collaboration between Ms. Hampl and artist Steven Sorman. “Ms. Hampl’s prose is enchanting; Mr. Sorman’s art is elegant.” The New Yorker “Ms. Hampl succeeds wonderfully……. Continue Reading →

Virgin Time

Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hampl seeks the “old world” of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage to Saint Francis’s Assisi, she meets other seekers–crotchety English agnostics, American friars and nuns, and the ardent souls… Continue Reading →

Resort and Other Poems

In her second collection of poems, Patricia Hampl addresses the classical themes of beauty and love, loss and memory, in  a series of shorter poems and then in the long title poem. Set in a small, tumbledown cabin on the… Continue Reading →

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