August 2023 – Princeton Writes

A Poem for You: Evening Hawk BY ROBERT PENN WARREN

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Evening Hawk BY ROBERT PENN WARREN From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds, Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, riding The last tumultuous avalanche of Light above pines and the guttural gorge, The hawk comes. His wing Scythes down another day, his motion Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear The crashless fall of stalks of Time. The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error. Look! Look! he is climbing the last light Who knows neither Time nor error, and under Whose eye, unforgiving, the [...]

A Poem for You: Evening Hawk BY ROBERT PENN WARRENadmin2023-05-08T13:04:38-04:00

Word of the Week: cordillera (kôr-dl-YÂR-ə)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:41:37-04:00

Word of the Week: cordillera (kôr-dl-YÂR-ə) Definition (Noun) A mountain chain or ridge, one of a series of parallel ridges; in plural applied originally by the Spanish to the parallel chains of the Andes in South America (las Cordilleras de los Andes), subsequently extended to the continuation of the same system through Central America and Mexico. In Context "A ride of seven hours across grassy plains covered with herbage, with patches of snow here and there, and ranges of hills with fine masses of rocks, forming a setting to the distant peaks of the cordillera, brought us to the post-house of [...]

Word of the Week: cordillera (kôr-dl-YÂR-ə)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:41:37-04:00

A Poem for You: Every Job Has a First Day BY REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL

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Every Job Has a First Day BY REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL Slade was pulling minnows out of the dry river the day we met. Puddles, more or less, was what was left. But what could live wanted to and tried, treading narrow circles, a glide of brittle ﬁns. He wore those rubber boots, though the sun was an anvil, and very little wet; he smiled, I remember that, his nickel smile right at me, his ﬁngers letting fall the small ﬁsh muscles into a bag ﬁlled with yellow tap. I didn’t ask his name, or what it was he thought he was doing, [...]

A Poem for You: Every Job Has a First Day BY REBECCA GAYLE HOWELLadmin2023-05-08T13:00:44-04:00

Word of the Week: atavic (ĂT-ə-vĭk)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:39:13-04:00

Word of the Week: atavic (ĂT-ə-vĭk) Definition (Adjective) Of or pertaining to a remote ancestor. In Context "By the time of the Revolution there was sufficient recrudescence of feudalism to cause an atavic reversion to chivalric standards." Arthur W. Calhoun, The American Family in the Colonial Period, 1917.

Word of the Week: atavic (ĂT-ə-vĭk)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:39:13-04:00

A Poem for You: How to Triumph Like a Girl BY ADA LIMÓN

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How to Triumph Like a Girl BY ADA LIMÓN I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. I like their lady horse swagger, after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up! But mainly, let’s be honest, I like that they’re ladies. As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart, giant with power, heavy with blood. Don’t you want to believe it? Don’t you [...]

A Poem for You: How to Triumph Like a Girl BY ADA LIMÓNadmin2023-05-08T12:55:01-04:00

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:43:44-04:00

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg) Definition (Noun) In a bad sense: A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator. In Context "Because of his enormous personal power – built on an immense fortune, the proprietorship of a media empire, the rhetorical skills of a demagogue and the control of a political party that he created – Mr. Berlusconi has been able to attain the loyalty of many people." Maurizio [...]

Word of the Week: demagogue (DĔM-ə-gôg)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:43:44-04:00

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən)

Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:37:41-04:00

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən) Definition (Noun) One that will bite at any bait or swallow anything: a credulous, gullible person. In Context "And that makes me for to take it the less to heart, when I do see you be such a gudgeon, Tim, with no more sense than to swallow neat down every thing that do come in your way." Frances Burney, The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties, 1814.

Word of the Week: gudgeon (GŬJ-ən)Stephanie Whetstone2023-05-03T10:37:41-04:00

A Poem for You: Gitanjali 35 BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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Gitanjali 35 BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

A Poem for You: Gitanjali 35 BY RABINDRANATH TAGOREadmin2023-05-08T12:50:03-04:00

Book of the Month: The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerr

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The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerr Critical Evalulation "Reading Anthony Doerr's fine first collection of stories is like eavesdropping on a group of people who are standing at a picture window inventing tall tales about the wilderness they see outside. But while the perspectives of the characters in 'The Shell Collector' range widely, from a lonely New England teenager to a Liberian refugee in Oregon, two themes unite the book's storytelling: hunting and being hunted, holding on and letting go. In one story, an outdoorsman from Montana falls in love with a magician's assistant who has the power to [...]

Book of the Month: The Shell Collector: Stories (2002) by Anthony Doerradmin2023-05-22T15:55:43-04:00

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