Join the GW English department for our latest edition of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series featuring Patrick Rosal, the author of 4 full-length poetry collections :
Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016)
Boneshepherds (2011)
My American Kundiman (2006)
Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003)
His work has won an impressive array of awards, including the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, Global Filipino Literary Award and the Asian American Writers Workshop Members’ Choice Award, the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net, among others. Publishers Weekly called his latest work, Brooklyn Antediluvian, “…an earth shattering performance.”
Patrick Rosal was awarded a 2009 Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines, and is the co-founder/editor of Some Call It Ballin’, a literary sports magazine. He currently is on the faculty of Rutgers University-Camden’s MFA program.
His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including The New York Times, Tin House, Drunken Boat, Poetry, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Grantland, Brevity, Breakbeat Poets, and The Best American Poetry.
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar was launched last month with a terrific paper by Professor Gil Harris, “The Writing on the Wall: Old Jewry and John Stow’s Urban Palimpsest.” During its initial semester the seminar will focus upon faculty work in progress, with papers circulating two weeks in advance of each meeting. The…
GW ENGLISH DEPARTMENTAL HONORS SYMPOSIUM Friday, May 2, 2008 Rome 771 1:00-4:30 pm 1:00 OPENING REMARKS Professor Jonathan Gil Harris, Director of Undergraduate Studies 1:10-2:10 SESSION I. PERFORMING SEXUALITY & GENDER Presiding: Professor Holly Dugan Lisa Francavilla, “Virgin, Mother, and Whore: Appropriating Female Bodily Agency in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I…
Student elections are this Wednesday and Thursday at GW, and a very large pool of SA, MCGB, and PB candidates have come forward to promote themselves. According to The Hatchet, there are 56 student candidates this year, compared to 31 last year. This increase is evident to anyone passing through Academic Center, University Yard, or…
Margaret Talbot Reading: The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. The GW English Department Presents: A Reading by Margaret Talbot The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century. Friday, February 12th, 7:30 pm Gelman 702 Margaret Talbot is an essayist and nonfiction writer, as well as a staff writer at The…
Attendant with Pearls: Abolition, Portraiture, Agency, and the Properties of Benevolence is the topic of this year’s Wang Endowment Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Patricia Matthew. All are welcome!
English majors! Professors Tony López and Daniel DeWispelare invite you to attend the Critical Methods Symposium and Party on Friday, 4/25, at 11 am in Rome 771. Share on FacebookTweet