Eight win Guggenheim Fellowships

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Catherine Zandonella

PHOTO CREDITS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: TOP ROW: JOHN LUCAS, RICHARD SODEN, PETER HURLEY, HANNAH DUNPHY BOTTOM ROW: DAVID BROWN, NINA KATCHADOURIAN, DENISE APPLEWHITE, JILL DOLAN Eight Princeton faculty members have received 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships Continue Reading →

Tracy K. Smith named U.S. Poet Laureate

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Catherine Zandonella

PHOTO BY DENISE APPLEWHITE Tracy K. Smith has been named the Library of Congress’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, for 2017-18. Smith is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and a Continue Reading →

Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Lynne Brown

Author: Lital Levy Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014 A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, “Homelandic,” is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish- Israeli author imagines a “language plague” that infects Continue Reading →

Poetry in Silico: Bringing digital tools to the study of poetry

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Catherine Zandonella

ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY, an English professor at Princeton sat in her office, musing over many volumes of forgotten lore about the right way to read a poem. There were handbooks, essays, letters from Continue Reading →

Meme by Susan Wheeler

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Catherine Zandonella

Acclaimed poet Susan Wheeler, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her attention to the most intimate of Continue Reading →

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