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Prompt for the Week 4/6/20

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Prompt for the Week 4/6/20 “I have to remind myself that the possibility of everything ending up okay is no more outlandish than any worst-case scenario I can conjure,” writes Lilly Dancyger in her essay “My Book Comes Out Next Year. Do I Even Still Believe in Next Year?” at Electric Literature. “If I can imagine a post-apocalyptic wasteland, I tell myself, I should also be able to imagine something like stability.” While acknowledging the precariousness of making plans during this uncertain time, write a personal essay about your hopes for next year. What comes to mind when you allow for [...]

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Book of the Month: There There by Tommy Orange (2018)

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Book of the Month: There There by Tommy Orange (2018) Critical Evaluation "The title of Tommy Orange’s bold debut novel is a reference to Gertrude Stein’s line about the city of her childhood, Oakland, California: “there is no there there”, she wrote. Oakland happens also to be Orange’s home town and provides the setting for the book, which has attracted many admiring reviews in the US. The novel centres on the interconnected lives of a group of Native Americans – or Indians, as they call themselves, determined to reclaim a term more often used disparagingly. Orange, himself a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho [...]

Book of the Month: There There by Tommy Orange (2018)admin2020-03-31T15:12:12-04:00

Prompt for the Week of 3/30/20

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Prompt for the Week of 3/30/20 Take a few minutes to wander through your home, trying to see it anew, as if you were a stranger passing through. What strikes your eye? Look even closer at objects, at art you’ve stopped looking at. Make a list of things you see anew. Then choose one and write about the way in which it speaks of you and to you. What memories does it contain? What might it reveal to a stranger’s eye? You can apply this prompt to a fictional character as well. This comes from #porchprompt on Instagram

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Prompt for the Week of 3/23/20

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Prompt for the Week of 3/23/20 (from Poets and Writers) “I sometimes find talking about a piece of visual art can help illuminate certain abstract ideas,” says Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of the debut novel, The Exhibition of Persephone Q (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), in a BOMB magazine interview by Kristina Tate. “I am drawn to visual art as a tool of writing about perception and the fragility of perception.” Take a cue from Stevens’s way of connecting writing and visual art, and write a lyric essay inspired by a particular painting or work of art that you find resonant. [...]

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Word of the Week: gormless (ˈgȯrm-ləs)

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Word of the Week: gormless (ˈgȯrm-ləs) Definition (Adjective) chiefly British: lacking intelligence : stupid In Context “Much of the movie unfolds inside the suburban Connecticut mansion where Lily lives with her gormless mother (Francie Swift) and her loathsome stepdad." Justin Chang, latimes.com, "Cory Finley's 'Thoroughbreds' is a delectably twisted mean-girls noir," 8 Mar. 2018

Word of the Week: gormless (ˈgȯrm-ləs)admin2020-03-02T13:08:30-05:00

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series: Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo Visit Campus

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Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series: Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo Visit Campus by Mia Salas ’22 This past fall semester, I took a course called The Novel Since 2000, and one of the books we read was Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? I even gave a presentation on Heti’s novel about the role of autofiction, and just a few short months later, I found out that she was coming to campus! While a seemingly odd coincidence, these tend to happen quite often at Princeton thanks to the Princeton Creative Writing Department’s efforts: the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading [...]

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series: Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo Visit Campus admin2020-02-25T11:48:52-05:00

Princeton Research Day Deadline 2/17/20

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Princeton Research Day 2020 is an exciting opportunity for students and other researchers to showcase their work for a broad audience. The event includes the full breadth of work being done by undergraduates, graduate students and other non-faculty researchers, artists and performers in every corner of Princeton University. Princeton Research Day will be held all day long on Thursday, May 7, at Frist Campus Center. The free, public program features talks, posters, video presentations, musical and theater performances, and art exhibitions. Cash prizes will be awarded.

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February Events for Writers

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February Events for Writers Inside Buffalo: An African-Italian Story February 13, 2020, 5 PM East Pyne Building Room 010 The Department of French and Italian presents a film screening of Inside Buffalo followed by Q&A with director, Fred Kuwornu. Cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts. Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo February 12, 2020, 7:30 PM, Donald G. Drapkin Studio Fiction writer, playwright, and journalist Sheila Heti and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, memoirist and musician Joy Harjo read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. C.K. Williams Reading Series: Aaron Robertson ’17 February 21, 2020, 6:30 PM. Forum, Lewis [...]

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CARLIN STORY SLAM

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CARLIN STORY SLAM (Patterned after The Moth Story Slam Series) THEME: Love Hurts -- true stories , told live and on-theme DATE: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 TIME: 6:30 PM doors open 7:00 PM storytellers selected HOST: Kevin Carlin STORYTELLERS: 10 selected at random VENUE: Tir na nOg (upstairs, intimate venue) A bit o’ Ireland at Trenton/Hamilton Line 1324 Hamilton Avenue Trenton, New Jersey COST: $10.00 (20 maximum attendees) $20.00 at the door, if available PAYMENT: In advance, imagine telling a story to less than 10 or being shut out due to sellout. Via Venmo to @Kevin-Carlin-20 WHAT IT IS: No [...]

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How to Use Your Body in Public Speaking

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Here's a great, short video to remind you what to do with your body while you speak. Check it out! How to Use Your Body in Public Speaking

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