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Join Prof. Patty Chu at the National Gallery of Art Monday
Prof. Patty Chu will be giving a lunchtime lecture titled “Narratives of Return: An Asian American Photographic Odyssey,” at the National Gallery of Art on Monday, May 17. The talk will be in the East (I.M. Pei) Wing, Small Auditorium, at 12:10 and again at 1:10. It runs 30 minutes, with time for Q&A. Here…
For Jon Lucks: “The Road Not Taken”
I read in the Hatchet that this sly poem by Robert Frost was a favorite of Jon’s, and that he could at a very young age recite it from memory. I offer it here in his memory. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler,…
Welcome to the Fall Semester!
The faculty of the English Department of the George Washington University welcomes all of our students to campus and to class. Best wishes for a very successful year. Share on FacebookTweet
Gayle Wald on “Soul!”
[illustration: Ellis Haizlip talks to Amiri Baraka in a promotional image for “Soul!”] “Soul!” was a groundbreaking TV variety show that aired on PBS from 1968-73. Originating at WNET in New York, the program featured an astonishingly broad range of black and Latino performers, many of who had never been on TV before. “Soul!“ presents…
A Note from the Department Chair about Jon Lucks
In the past few days more than three hundred visitors to this blog have come seeking information about Jon Lucks, an alumnus of this department whose recent death has left those who knew him in shock and in mourning. I wish I could provide a personal memory, but it was never my privilege to have…
Creative Writing Feature: Sarah Krouse
From Mary Tabor‘s Intermediate Fiction 103 class comes this modular story from junior Sarah Krouse. (W)hole She had knitted a baby blanket for a child that was not her own. In the bottom right corner of her meticulously crafted yarn tapestry was an “L.” She could be a part of this. She bought her 1100…