Summer Reading: Earth

Spring Smells of Lilacs  Early spring is, famously, cruel. The bite of winter is still sharp, even “whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote” (“when that April with his sweet showers pierce the drought of March”). Chaucer’s famous opening lines of the Canterbury Tales emphasize…

Beginning October 27, join #GWBookLife for the second installment in the virtual book club series. Join us as we venture into a series of short stories by award-winning novelist and short-story writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Connect with other passionate readers within the GW community as you discover new stories and engage in witty conversation! Follow our social…

We at GW English hope that your Thanksgiving Break is a restful one surrounded by loved ones … and perhaps curled up with some of those books you’ve been wanting to read!  We’ll see you next week. Share on FacebookTweet

Vacation on Mount Desert Island Nina Gilden Seavey, Sunset on Bar Harbor, 2015             So where would we go for vacation in 2015?  Various considerations set aside the old pattern of the northern Minnesota lake.  My daughter Eleanor (GWU 2010) has been living for a while with her boyfriend Greg Fortier in Manhattan.  Greg has…

What do you think of when you hear the name, Michael Chabon? Comic books? Coming of age? Judaism? Pittsburgh? Movie adaptations? Chances are marijuana was probably not on that list. So when the lights dimmed in Lisner Auditorium this past Friday night and Chabon cracked the spine of his new collection of nonfiction essays, Manhood…

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…