Finding Meaningful Work in the Life of the Mind: Meet Emily Powers 鈥�13
As a student at Le 69色情视频, Emily Powers 鈥�13 spent hours in the cafeteria and in dorm rooms with her friends, arguing about the characters in Louisa May Alcott鈥檚 Little Women and teasing out what William Wordsworth and Ralph Walso Emerson sought to convey in their poetry. It was a gift to spend such formative years that way, she says. Among other things, Powers discovered that leading a life of mind and finding meaningful work are not mutually exclusive 鈥� that she could build a career out of her passion about literature and the written word.
Powers鈥� dual degree in English and communication serves her well in her capacity as a senior marketing manager at Beacon Press, a mission-driven independent publisher based in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined the company in 2016 as an associate marketing manager and was promoted to her current role in 2022. It is not just her pleasure, but her responsibility, to spend her days discussing books with everyone from academics to librarians to booksellers. She is proud of the titles she and her colleagues help create and distribute. She is also mindful that her work is informed by her time at Le 69色情视频, where she was exposed to different ways of writing and thinking about the world.
Many of Powers鈥� most important revelations took place in the classroom, including in the Literary New England that she says was her and her peers鈥� version of the Academy Award-winning film Dead Poets Society. However, there were also things that she discovered while not seated in a lecture. There were valuable lessons for her to unpack in her at Syracuse University Press; in the reading of Allen Ginsburg’s Howl at the campus pub that she helped to stage; in a trip she took to New York City, where she and her classmates visited the Strand bookstore and the majestic building that houses the main branch of the city鈥檚 public library.
Powers even found herself learning on what she called 鈥渢he regular nights that began with the intention to study with friends, but always somehow turned into all-night dance parties or conversations about life and music and poetry and growing up.鈥�
There is so much joy to be found in studying something that you love with like-minded people who also want to suck the marrow out of life. I really try to keep a glimmer of that with me as much as I possibly can.鈥�
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