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Book of the Month: The Book of Goose (2022) by Yiyun Li

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Book of the Month: The Book of Goose (2022) by Yiyun Li Critical Evaluation “All fiction is a kind of hoax in that it spins a delusion, inciting genuine feelings with invented characters and situations. The most propulsively entertaining of Li’s novels, “The Book of Goose” is an existential fable that illuminates the tangle of motives behind our writing of stories: to apprehend and avenge the truth of our own being, to make people know what it feels like to be us, to memorialize the people we keep alive in the provincial villages of our hearts. But it’s the motives behind [...]

Book of the Month: The Book of Goose (2022) by Yiyun Liadmin2022-10-12T11:00:17-04:00

A Poem for You: December 24, 1971 BY JOSEPH BRODSKY

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December 24, 1971 BY JOSEPH BRODSKY For V.S. When it’s Christmas we’re all of us magi. At the grocers’ all slipping and pushing. Where a tin of halvah, coffee-flavored, is the cause of a human assault-wave by a crowd heavy-laden with parcels: each one his own king, his own camel. Nylon bags, carrier bags, paper cones, caps and neckties all twisted up sideways. Reek of vodka and resin and cod, orange mandarins, cinnamon, apples. Floods of faces, no sign of a pathway toward Bethlehem, shut off by blizzard. And the bearers of moderate gifts leap on buses and jam all the doorways, [...]

A Poem for You: December 24, 1971 BY JOSEPH BRODSKYadmin2022-11-14T12:02:19-05:00

Applying for a Position? Check Out These Resources.

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Applying for a Position? Check Out These Resources. Cover Letters Guidance: Broad Institute (https://mitcommlab.mit.edu/broad/commkit/cover-letter-for-a-faculty-position/) Examples: Harvard University (beginning on page 20) (https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/gsas-cvs-and-cover-letters.pdf) Curricula Vitae Guidance: Indiana University Bloomington (https://education.indiana.edu/students/careers/docs/CV%20Guide.pdf) Examples: University of Toronto (https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Creating-Your-Academic-CV.pdf) Resumes Guidance: Georgetown University (https://careercenter.georgetown.edu/major-career-guides/resumes-cover-letters/resume-formatting-tips/) Examples: University of California, Davis (https://icc.ucdavis.edu/materials/resume/samples) Research Statements Guidance: University of Pennsylvania (https://careerservices.upenn.edu/application-materials-for-the-faculty-job-search/research-statements-for-faculty-job-applications/) Examples: Boston University (https://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2017/10/research_statements1.pdf) Teaching Statements Guidance: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/teaching-statements/) Examples: University of Michigan (https://crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/tstpum) Diversity Statements Guidance: Vanderbilt University (https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/developing-and-writing-a-diversity-statement/) Examples: University of California San Diego (https://physicalsciences.ucsd.edu/_files/examples-submitted-diversity-statements.pdf)

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A Poem for You: The Love Ridge Loop BY ABBIE KIEFER

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The Love Ridge Loop BY ABBIE KIEFER In disregard of the signs, no one bothers with leashes, dogs barreling unbounded over every grooved path. He’s friendly they yell, 50 yards back. Don’t worry, he’s darling, a cuddlepie of a pup. I’m never not wary. Show me any person who could call their dearest unworthy. Who would warn me Walk wide. He’s teeth and more teeth. This creature I love beyond my control.

A Poem for You: The Love Ridge Loop BY ABBIE KIEFERadmin2022-11-14T11:43:34-05:00

Tolo by Dana Sheridan and David Deen

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Tolo, A Virtual Choose Your Own Path Adventure by Dana Sheridan and David Deen Please join Princeton Writes in congratulating our 2017-2018 Princeton Writes Prize winner (and 2014-2015 Honorable Mention winner), Dana Sheridan, on her newest publication. With David Deen, Dana has just released Cotsen Children’s Library's first digital book for kids – Tolo, a virtual choose your own path adventure! The digital book, Like all Cotsen Children's Library initiatives, is free and open to all. Please share it with young (or young at heart) readers and children’s writers! Follow this link to adventure! https://cotsen.princeton.edu/tolo .

Tolo by Dana Sheridan and David Deenadmin2022-12-07T15:17:53-05:00

Word of the Year

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Word of the Year by Stephanie Whetstone I was having dinner with friends recently—a writer and an artist—when they each revealed they had chosen a word in January that would be their "word of the year."Leah’s was “love” in all its many forms; Laurie’s was “reflection,” so she would remember to stop and think, instead of constantly moving in different directions without rest. Rather than try to make specific resolutions for improvement, they each chose a word that would become the theme of their year, something they came back to, a mantra of sorts. A reminder of who they wanted to [...]

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A Poem for You: Welcome to Indian Country BY RENA PRIEST

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Welcome to Indian Country BY RENA PRIEST Where is Indian Country? It’s everywhere we stand. It’s anywhere we dance. It’s where the earth loves the feel of our feet. Welcome to Indian Country. What does that mean? It means this is where we lift our voice in song and make a joyful drumbeat so our hearts can sing along. Welcome to Indian Country. This beloved country here, where we honor our ancestors by growing stronger every year, by making laughter the answer that wipes away our tears. Welcome to Indian Country. What does the future hold? In uncertain times like these we [...]

A Poem for You: Welcome to Indian Country BY RENA PRIESTadmin2022-11-14T11:37:27-05:00

A Poem for You: Invitation by Mark Kirschen

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Invitation BY MARK KIRSCHEN Come out into the open where We all are: at the center of a bridge Whose dark river draws all light And the nearest weeds to itself Here to search out love— Discarded hearts at the city's edge— Where fish follow their fathers' routes And we cannot lift up to thread the constellations If you meet me here I will make you a myth: you will show As cold points between the clouds If you meet me here your light Will hold the eyes of descendants Unable to find a crossing over the dark river

A Poem for You: Invitation by Mark Kirschenadmin2022-10-11T16:14:02-04:00

A Poem for You: Such Beauty from Ashes by Carolyn Marie Rodgers

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Such Beauty from Ashes BY CAROLYN MARIE RODGERS and we are singing our hearts out, and our souls are in our eyes, and they are beautiful souls. they are souls of truth. they are souls of love. they are souls of faith. they are souls of hope. and we have conquered a little corner in the world of fear. and we have stepped up and forward, and we have torn down walls. we have smashed sound barriers between us. we have dared again and again and yet again to dream, and our dreams have finally taken material form. we have [...]

A Poem for You: Such Beauty from Ashes by Carolyn Marie Rodgersadmin2022-10-11T16:07:25-04:00

A Poem for You: Out of These Wounds, the Moon Will Rise BY Jay Hopler

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Out of These Wounds, the Moon Will Rise BY JAY HOPLER Now that the sun has set and the rain has abated, And every porch light in the neighborhood is lit, Maybe we can invent something; I'd like a new Way of experiencing the world, a way of taking Into myself the single light shining at the center Of all things without losing the dense, eccentric Planets orbiting around it. What you'd like is a more Attentive lover, I suppose—· Too bad that slow, Wet scorch of orange blossoms floating towards The storm drain is not a vein of stars . . . [...]

A Poem for You: Out of These Wounds, the Moon Will Rise BY Jay Hopleradmin2022-10-05T12:09:54-04:00

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