Summer Reading: Earth

WELCOME TO NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT GWU ENGLISH! The first National Poetry Month was in April 1996 and was started by The Academy of American Poets as a month-long celebration of poems.  In April 1996, I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago when my poetry professor, Elizabeth Alexander, tasked her students with creating…

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…

Ashes and Blossoms Today, again, On the string spun from grief and pain, I threaded blossoms; drawn from your memory. And I plucked, From the desert of abandoned love, Buds which bloomed; when were together. Then, I placed on your doorsteps, Offering to the days of your memory. Laid, Side by side, in the vase…

The Saved From cutting the nuts out of a bull calf’s bag with a Barlow, from laying case knives on a dress pattern, from running a trotline and baiting the hooks with gone liver, from mashing a tobacco worm into a green blot, from crimping dough at the piecrust edge, from whisking an egg, from…

GW English will hold a celebration of the publication of A Cultural History of Disability in 2021.  This will most likely be an online event as our 2020 celebration was postponed due to the pandemic.  We will announce the details of this event in early 2021, but in the meantime: the six volumes are open access…

Director of Graduate Studies Tara Wallace responds to (L to R) Farisa Khalid, Brian Dumm, Emily Lathrop On March 1st, 2019, the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) hosted their annual symposium, where graduate students from GWU and other consortium schools gather to share their research with one another in a supportive and rigorous atmosphere. The…