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Book of the Month: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (2021)

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Book of the Month: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (2021) "Born and raised in New York, Whitehead, who lives on the Upper West Side, writes and talks about the city with a native’s mix of affection and exasperation, marveling at its endless contradictions — the grotesque wealth and grinding poverty, the ambition and dereliction, the striving and corruption, the loneliness and misanthropy, the glamour and grime. He finished writing “Harlem Shuffle” during the first few months of the pandemic, when much of the city felt abandoned and hollowed out, silent except for the sirens. "'I’m describing a Harlem that’s in decline [...]

Book of the Month: Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (2021)admin2021-11-11T09:44:53-05:00

How to Write a Letter of Recommendation

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How to Write a Letter of Recommendation It's that time of year. No, not just for New Year's resolutions! It's application season. And many applications--for graduate schools, summer internships, and fellowships--require letters of recommendation, sometimes referred to as LORs. It is an honor to be asked to write an LOR, but you need to establish some ground rules and create a basic recommendation letter template to use as a starting point; otherwise, the deadlines could pile up, and there are futures on the line! No pressure. First, you should only consent to write a LOR for someone you know and whose [...]

How to Write a Letter of Recommendationadmin2021-11-16T16:27:55-05:00

A Poem for You: After the Winter

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After the Winter Claude McKay Some day, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning's white The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love, Toward the summer isle Where bamboos spire to shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchids smile. And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree, And leaps the laughing crystal rill, And works the droning bee. And we will build a [...]

A Poem for You: After the Winteradmin2021-10-20T11:49:55-04:00

A Poem for You: won’t you celebrate with me

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won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

A Poem for You: won’t you celebrate with meadmin2021-10-20T11:44:30-04:00

A Poem for You: The Life of a Writer

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The Life of a Writer Jalynn Harris the life of a writer is desire i hammer into the page i make up my mind: the streetlight is not the moon, but anything can be made beautiful under the ease of my hammer i wish you could see that i write in blue ink the color of oceans & early mornings & everything is clear like tears rushing towards the chin of my desire. i pen what i’m meant to pen. how deep in love i am & how silly of me to spend all morning dreaming about love & not expect [...]

A Poem for You: The Life of a Writeradmin2021-10-20T11:38:29-04:00

A Poem for You: somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we [...]

A Poem for You: somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondadmin2021-10-20T11:34:14-04:00

Book of the Month: Matrix by Lauren Groff (2021)

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Book of the Month: Matrix by Lauren Groff (2021) Critical Review "Perhaps the greatest pleasure of this novel is also its most subtle. Groff is a gifted writer capable of deft pyrotechnics and well up to the challenges she sets herself, including that of rendering feverish apparitions of the Virgin as recorded by a seminal poet of the Western canon. One senses she doesn’t so much struggle to create her vision but is borne aloft on it, which is the page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her. "But it’s the dogged progress of a grand life that sustains this narrative. From [...]

Book of the Month: Matrix by Lauren Groff (2021)admin2021-11-02T13:27:08-04:00

The Magic of Showing Up

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The Magic of Showing Up In our Writing Space Group (a group of Princeton employees who like to write and meet once a month to do so), we often talk about finding the time and motivation to pursue our own creative projects. Some of us write every day for work, some don't, but we all struggle to find a consistent, viable schedule for our own creative writing projects. We have discussed many strategies, and the key to consistency, it seems, may come from something as simple as sitting down at your desk or kitchen table. A personal trainer once told me [...]

The Magic of Showing Upadmin2021-12-01T16:21:31-05:00

A Poem for You: Heirloom

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Heirloom Brian Sonia-Wallace Dad always grew tomatoes They were his pride and joy So when the lady outside Home Depot Offered me the box and said, ‘Do you have a garden?’ I didn’t say no, though I should have I said, ‘We have a theatre…’ And somehow that was just as good. It grows like a weed in Hollywood In the cracks between Film and Industry It was a grease monkey’s garage, then a shooting range But only now Can we call the people who run it clowns. We put the tomatoes out On the air conditioning supply unit To try [...]

A Poem for You: Heirloomadmin2021-09-21T13:55:43-04:00

A Poem for You: With the Lark

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With the Lark Paul Laurence Dunbar Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy, Chasing the troubles that fret and annoy; Darkness for sighing and daylight for song,— Cheery and chaste the strain, heartfelt and strong. All the night through, though I moan in the dark, I wake in the morning to sing with the lark. Deep in the midnight the rain whips the leaves, Softly and sadly the wood-spirit grieves. But when the first hue of dawn tints the sky, I shall shake out my wings like the birds and be dry; And though, like the rain-drops, I grieved [...]

A Poem for You: With the Larkadmin2021-09-21T13:52:41-04:00

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