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Revealing Princeton’s Literary History by Mia Salas ’22

admin2019-12-03T17:01:20-05:00

Princeton Writes Student Board Organizes a Tour of Princeton’s Literary History by Mia Salas ’22 This place -- it is redolent with the breath of the emotional life lived here and the intellectual life made manifest here. "The wisdom of the dead and the energy of the living" merge to become a tradition that informs the present and shapes the future. Toni Morrison, “The Place of the Idea; The Idea of the Place,” 1996 On Friday, November 22, at 2 p.m., we kicked off the University’s first tour of its literary history on the steps of Nassau Hall with the [...]

Revealing Princeton’s Literary History by Mia Salas ’22 admin2019-12-03T17:01:20-05:00

New Undergraduate Fellow Named
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New Undergraduate Fellow Named

admin2019-09-10T16:57:28-04:00

We are delighted to announce that Alexandra (Allie) Spensley ’20 has been named Princeton Writes’ 2019-2020 undergraduate fellow and Student Board chair. She will succeed Maha Al Fahim ’19, who has filled this role with great devotion and distinction during the past year. Allie is a rising senior, pursuing a major in history and certificates in American studies, history and the practice of diplomacy, and creative writing. The high caliber of her in-class writing has been recognized by the 2017 Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, the 2017 and 2018 Lewis Center for the Arts Outstanding Work Award, and the 2017 and [...]

New Undergraduate Fellow Namedadmin2019-09-10T16:57:28-04:00

Connect: Harnessing the Power of Words
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Connect: Harnessing the Power of Words

admin2019-11-12T18:19:07-05:00

“An Amazing Day” On May 2 and 3, 2019, Princeton Writes convened its first symposium on the written and spoken word, “Connect: Harnessing the Power of Words,” designed to strengthen staff communication skills and the human connections that sustain our campus. As Program Director John Weeren put it in his opening remarks, “the more we conceive of communication as relational rather than transactional and the more we subordinate the pronoun I and elevate the pronoun we, the more fruitful our exchanges will be.” Led by some of our University community’s most accomplished writers and speakers, the symposium began on May 2 with [...]

Connect: Harnessing the Power of Wordsadmin2019-11-12T18:19:07-05:00

doldrums (DOHL-drumz)

Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-20T16:44:50-05:00

Definition (plural noun) 1 .a spell of listlessness or despondency 2. often capitalized Doldrums : a part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms, squalls, and light shifting winds 3. a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or slump In Context "At the time, the bourbon industry was in the process of emerging from a lengthy period of doldrums and rebranding itself as not just something old men drank." The Kentucky Standard, 21 Nov. 2018

doldrums (DOHL-drumz)Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-20T16:44:50-05:00

Juno’s Swans (2018) by Tamsen Wolff
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Juno’s Swans (2018) by Tamsen Wolff

admin2019-09-12T15:07:44-04:00

Critical Evaluation “Juno’s Swans by Tamsen Wolff is not a traditional queer “first love” novel. It’s not a story about becoming and it doesn’t contain bromides about the magic of new love. What it offers instead is a story about the limits of love: both the crash at the end of a first love, and the tunnel vision infatuation can give, the kind where everything outside that adoring gaze becomes flattened. Juno’s Swans gives us Nina, a high school senior washed ashore from a summer in Cape Cod in which she went to an acting residency, fell madly in love with Sarah, [...]

Juno’s Swans (2018) by Tamsen Wolffadmin2019-09-12T15:07:44-04:00