From Summer 2012 Explore This Issue Accident; Belief; & Gratitude By Lia Purpura From the Summer 2012 Issue Lia Purpura’s new collection of poems is It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin/Viking, 2015). She is Writer-in-Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. ← Improving My Mind & Casting Aspersions → Immigrants & For Beauty’s Sake