Deadline approaching for GW-Folger seminar
Don’t miss your chance to study the history of the book at the Folger.
Applications due March 10. More information here.
Don’t miss your chance to study the history of the book at the Folger.
Applications due March 10. More information here.
Every president should commence a term in office with poetry. The arts are too often separated from government, and for no good reason. Only two presidents have invited poets to read from their work during inauguration: John. F. Kennedy (Robert Frost) and Bill Clinton (Maya Angelou, Miller Williams). Good news: Barack Obama has likewise named…
Denise Duhamel, a terrific and prolific poet, will be reading at GW on Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. in 1957 E Street, Room 213. The reading is the final event of the Jenny McKean Moore series this year. Duhamel is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, including Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Mille…
The Office of Alumni Relations launched the redesigned GW Alumni website. You can view the redesigned site at http://alumni.gwu.edu/index.cfm. Alumni, please update your contact information: www.alumni.gwu.edu/update. And do not forget the following: — Free lifetime email accounts, powered by Google (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/email/index.html) — Alumni Travel program 2009 destinations (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/travel/index.html) — Alumni Course Audit program (http://alumni.gwu.edu/benefits/education/courseaudit/index.html) Share…
When you talk to most professors in the English department they profess that reading became an obsessive hobby from an early age. However Ramola D could not stop at reading books, she had to write them too. “I couldn’t read for long without itching to put the book down and write my own stories and…
The English Department is happy to announce that English Major Samantha Yakas has joined us as the new Communications Liaison for the 2012-2013 school year. The Communications Liaison helps us with all of our social media, including this blog (watch for Samantha’s posts), our Facebook page, and Twitter. Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/English-Dept-GWU/31472949461Follow us on Twitter…
Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman, who kicks off this year’s Jewish Literature Live readings, is one of those remarkable polymaths: an award-winning fiction writer whose “day job” is as a neuroradiologist at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. His first novel, From the Far Euphrates, was an LA Times Book Review…