March 2019 – Princeton Writes

Join Us for Connect: “Harnessing the Power of Words”

Stephanie Whetstone2019-03-19T12:00:02-04:00

Mark your calendars! On May 2 and 3, 2019, Princeton Writes will hold a symposium on the written and spoken word, “Connect: Harnessing the Power of Words,” designed to strengthen staff communication skills and the human connections that sustain our campus. Registration opens on March 25 at noon via the University's Learning Center. If your desired sessions are full, please join their waiting lists, as cancellations frequently occur. Led by some of our University community’s most accomplished writers and speakers, the symposium will begin on May 2 with an opening conversation between the distinguished essayist and novelist Pico Iyer and interim Vice [...]

Join Us for Connect: “Harnessing the Power of Words”Stephanie Whetstone2019-03-19T12:00:02-04:00

doldrums (DOHL-drumz)

Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-20T16:44:50-05:00

Definition (plural noun) 1 .a spell of listlessness or despondency 2. often capitalized Doldrums : a part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms, squalls, and light shifting winds 3. a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or slump In Context "At the time, the bourbon industry was in the process of emerging from a lengthy period of doldrums and rebranding itself as not just something old men drank." The Kentucky Standard, 21 Nov. 2018

doldrums (DOHL-drumz)Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-20T16:44:50-05:00

On Roland Barthes and Writing Letters to Our Beloveds by Cate Mahoney

Cate Mahoney2019-12-04T16:00:37-05:00

On Roland Barthes and Writing Letters to Our Beloveds by Cate Mahoney Most letters aren't worth reading more than once or twice, but love letters invite us to read and reread not just the text but ourselves and others. There is, of course, more to any letter than meets the eye, as many a writer has attested: “A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Indebted in our talk to attitude and accent, there seems a spectral power in thought that walks alone." - Emily Dickinson, letter #330 “I might be [...]

On Roland Barthes and Writing Letters to Our Beloveds by Cate Mahoney Cate Mahoney2019-12-04T16:00:37-05:00

Events for Writers- March

Stephanie Whetstone2019-03-12T16:11:10-04:00

C.K. Williams Emerging Writers Reading Series: Hala Alyan and Princeton Students Friday 3/8 at 6pm, Labyrinth Books Princeton The Emerging Writers Reading Series at Labyrinth Bookstore showcases senior thesis students of the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. This month, we welcome Hala Alyan along with Princeton Students Mohamad Adnan, Kandace Rosser, Paul Schorin, Elias Stern, and Joanna Zhang. March 13, 2019, 7 PM, Hearst Dance Theater Holmes Visiting Professor and Poet Simon Armitage gives a reading in the Hearst Dance Theater followed by a reception in the Forum at the [...]

Events for Writers- MarchStephanie Whetstone2019-03-12T16:11:10-04:00

Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation (2017) by Jeff Dolven

Cate Mahoney2019-03-01T12:00:03-05:00

Critical Evaluation "Jeff Dolven treats no novels in Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation, but Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica stages a moment of just the sort that animates his study. An ex-model now suffering from hepatitis, Gaitskill’s narrator, Alison, coins the term 'style suit' to refer to the fashions of her moment. “I thought the new style suit was who I really was,” she remembers with a cringe. Not a costume to be donned or discarded at will, style, for Alison, is the outward manifestation of an inner self, as solid and unchangeable as we might wish our selves to be: 'I [...]

Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation (2017) by Jeff DolvenCate Mahoney2019-03-01T12:00:03-05:00