Paul Beatty and Marilyn Chin Reading Wed. Feb. 8, 4:30pm Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center Paul Beatty received the prestigious 2016 Man Booker Prize for his book The Sellout, a satire of US racial politics. Marilyn Chin’s new book of poems, Hard Love Province, recently won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, an honor acknowledging important […]
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Join the Fred Moten Reading Group for a discussion of "Music Against the Law of Reading the Future and 'Rodney King'" (1994) and "Knowledge of Freedom" (2004). If interested, please contact Jesse McCarthy (jdmccart@princeton.edu) or Orlando Reade (osxr@princeton.edu ) for more information, including PDFs of the readings.
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Mon. Feb. 13, 7pm Taplin Auditorium Joseph Gauvreau will present his senior thesis,"The Vanity of the World: Poetry, Song, and the Dangers of Beauty in Calvinist Geneva." The event will be featuring musical guests and is free and opened to the public. |
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A Poetry Reading and Conversation with Aliki Barnstone University of Missouri Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and visual artist. Her most recent books of poetry and translation are Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016), Bright Body (White Pine, 2011), Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), andThe Collected Poems […] |
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Issue N°7 Launch Party & Panel Our seventh issue includes a wide range of works translated from 15 languages, including poetry and fiction by Andreas Embirikos, Aleksandr Pushkin, Raymond Queneau, Jonah Rosenfeld, and Ezequiel Zaidenwerg. Copies of Inventory N°7 will be available at the launch. This event is free and open to all. For further […] |
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A Belknap Global Conversation presented by the Humanities Council will feature a reading by award-winning writer and activist Dacia Maraini in Italian with English supertitles followed by a conversation in English with faculty members Alessandro Giammei and Jhumpa Lahiri. This event is free and open to the public; a reception will follow. Maraini is the […] |
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Foteini Dimirouli, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University "The voice explaining at once formally and intimately": James Merrill's 'Cavafy' and the Poetics of Intimacy" Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk. Date: Thursday, February 23 - 4: 30 PM Location: Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall |
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Activism & Academia: A Conversation with Junot Díaz In Commemoration of Black History Month, Princeton Latinos y Amigos proudly invites you to a special Book Reading, Q & A Session, and Book Signing with Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Díaz. As part of the Campus Conversations on Identity series, Mr. Díaz will be reading from his […] |
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On Wednesday, March 1st, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Claudia Rankine presents the Theodore H. Holmes ‘51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture. Rankine is the 2016-17 recipient of Princeton’s Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing. The lecture begins at 5:00 […] |
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Kay Redfield Jamison Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire Saturday, March 4th @ 3PM ---------------------------------------------------------- In her magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell, whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark […] |