Community of Writers: Marianna Bogucki

2021-01-27T15:09:23-05:00

Community of Writers: Marianna Bogucki Marianna Bogucki works in Conference and Event Services at Princeton University. She is a prolific writer and traveler whose essay "November Light" (https://pwrites.princeton.edu/prize/november-light/) previously won the Princeton Writes Prize. Here, she speaks with Princeton Writes about her writing process and creative trajectory, including her experiences blogging at http://travelswithauggie.blogspot.com and at http://mariannasadventures.blogspot.com.   What draws you to writing?  I think writing’s just always been a way for me to express myself clearly. I feel like a lot of times in conversation, I’m a very gregarious person and a lot of times, I speak before thinking. Writing’s always been a way I [...]

Community of Writers: Marianna Bogucki2021-01-27T15:09:23-05:00

A Poem for You: I dwell in Possibility – (466)

2020-12-14T13:10:39-05:00

I dwell in Possibility – (466) BY EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in Possibility – A fairer House than Prose – More numerous of Windows – Superior – for Doors – Of Chambers as the Cedars – Impregnable of eye – And for an everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky – Of Visitors – the fairest – For Occupation – This – The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise –

A Poem for You: I dwell in Possibility – (466)2020-12-14T13:10:39-05:00

Word of the Week: farrago (fə-RÄ-gō)

2020-12-14T13:34:45-05:00

farrago (fə-RÄ-gō) Definition (Noun) A confused group; a medley, mixture, hotchpotch. In Context "Between these two dates an obscure man of letters, Edouard Drumont, had published La France Juive (1886), a farrago of nonsense that purported to demonstrate the Jewish hold on France and its destructive effects." Eugen Weber, France: Fin de Siècle, 1986.

Word of the Week: farrago (fə-RÄ-gō)2020-12-14T13:34:45-05:00

Tell Your Story

2021-01-29T08:07:23-05:00

My mother used to marvel at the twists and turns her life had taken. “If I could write a book, nobody would believe it,” she’d say. What about your life? Would we believe your story? How will you know until you write it? Are you ready to write your memoir or the “Great American Novel”? Let 2021 be the year you finally commit to getting your stories or poems or essays on the page. No matter what your writing goals are, it’s great to have support. The blank page can be intimidating. Princeton Writes invites you to join Writing Space, a [...]

Tell Your Story2021-01-29T08:07:23-05:00

A Poem for You: Let It Be Known

2020-12-14T13:09:05-05:00

Let It Be Known BY MARGARET BURROUGHS Let it be known to all, the story Of the glorious struggle of my people. Let it be known that black men and women Helped to build this our country. Let it be known that black men and women of the past In an effort to make this country What it ought to be, gave up their very last To make America, a real democracy A true homeland of the free. Let our leaders of today go back into the past And come fighting forth envigored with the spirit Of Turner, and Vesey, Douglass, Tubman [...]

A Poem for You: Let It Be Known2020-12-14T13:09:05-05:00

Word of the Week: balalaika (băl-ə-LĪ-kə)

2020-12-14T13:50:37-05:00

balalaika (băl-ə-LĪ-kə) Definition (Noun) A musical instrument of the guitar kind, with a triangular body, popular in Russia and other Slav countries. In Context "Every new scene was accompanied by the ghastly twanging of a balalaika, a sound that gave the action a touch of the Devil." Anatoly Smeliansky, The Russian Theatre After Stalin, 1999.

Word of the Week: balalaika (băl-ə-LĪ-kə)2020-12-14T13:50:37-05:00

A Poem for You: Winter

2020-12-14T13:05:29-05:00

Winter Walter de la Mare And the robin flew Into the air, the air, The white mist through; And small and rare The night-frost fell Into the calm and misty dell. And the dusk gathered low, And the silver moon and stars On the frozen snow Drew taper bars, Kindled winking fires In the hooded briers. And the sprawling Bear Growled deep in the sky; And Orion's hair Streamed sparkling by: But the North sighed low, "Snow, snow, more snow!"  

A Poem for You: Winter2020-12-14T13:05:29-05:00

A Poem for You: “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”

2020-12-14T13:01:28-05:00

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” BY JOHN KEATS Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—          Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart,          Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task          Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask          Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,          Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,          Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her [...]

A Poem for You: “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art”2020-12-14T13:01:28-05:00

Book of the Month: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)

2020-12-14T14:13:07-05:00

Book of the Month: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020) Critical Evaluation "Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid. From Southeast Asia to a forgotten school in South Carolina, he evokes the sense of place with a light but sure hand.” Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda, "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’," The New York [...]

Book of the Month: A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)2020-12-14T14:13:07-05:00

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