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Telescoping Morning

“In the succeeding entries, we telescope our mornings by recounting and recasting. Each succeeding morning of a series is composed in exactly half the number of words of the previous. Diminish with us below.”

by Alex Jacobson, Ananya Malhotra, Carolyn Kelly, Christopher Villani, David Exumé, Katie Duggan, Miriam Friedman, Serena Alagappan, Tara Shirazi, Tess Solomon, Tianyi Wang on October 22, 2017October 22, 2017

Monopoly

“I slipped two hotels into my pockets; I slept with some under my pillow that night, and the little silver piece I put in my sock for the day.”

by Serena Alagappan on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

Love According to Gabriel García Márquez

“Love is a breath, and a surprise, and the common space between two solitudes, and two bodies.”

by Serena Alagappan on May 5, 2018May 5, 2018

Nostalgia Architects

“With too much text to see or read, / I imagine the storm of a thousand paper cranes.”

by Serena Alagappan on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019

The Sculptures that Surround Us

Brief descriptions of artistic objects you walk past on Princeton’s campus.

by Alex Jacobson, Andrew White, Mina Quesen, Serena Alagappan, Tess Solomon on November 17, 2019

Witness Theater

Art, trauma, and the Holocaust

by Serena Alagappan on November 13, 2016

Barbed Beauty

“Perhaps we must accept that we are simply watchers of beautiful forms. And if we acknowledge that we are observers, bound by our own frailties and limitations, we may be able to rescue the memory of what was, for an instant, exquisite.”

by Serena Alagappan on April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

Atlantis

Where our voices meld shrill and sheepish at the same time, holding the bird that twitches, wings folded, eyes tight.

by Serena Alagappan on February 18, 2018February 18, 2018

The Smell of Salt

“We rolled the shoes / over like small, still bodies.”

by Serena Alagappan on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019

The Skeleton in the Sea

“A part of this planet for 500,000 years, the Great Barrier Reef bears both the wisdom and ache of old age.”

by Serena Alagappan on October 13, 2019October 12, 2019

Leon/Levy

Forgiving and living after the Holocaust

by Serena Alagappan on December 11, 2016July 21, 2017


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