Summer Reading: Earth

Invictus Out of the night that covers me,    Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be    For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance    I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance    My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond…

Although our undergraduate majors have been enjoying this site for a month, many new readers are finding the English Department’s blog this week via the Colonial Cable. We welcome you, and encourage you to have a look around. Try the “Contents at a Glance” list on the righthand side of this page. You may also…

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size    But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips,    The stride of my step,    The curl of my lips.    I’m…

If you are a close reader of this blog, you’ve likely noticed that I’ve been posting an awful lot lately.  I suppose it is time to finally come out of the closet: I am indeed the new chair of the English Department at the George Washington University.  I have been happy to be part of…

(  ) death I cause       I result in breaking heads along the highway. burial as it fits between transit. buttons make time stop and shirt buttons make time not work for me faulting clothes to shame physics. time as a round thing I fumble to break           our paradox meant to save to leave machines. each…

Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold,  Her hardest hue to hold.  Her early leaf’s a flower;  But only so an hour.  Then leaf subsides to leaf.  So Eden sank to grief,  So dawn goes down to day.  Nothing gold can stay.  “Nothing Gold Can Stay” has been one of my favorite poems…