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Don’t miss this beautifully composed reflection on small daily pleasures and “death-reminders” in the Professor Margaret Soltan‘s blog, University Diaries. Share on FacebookTweet
GW Creative Writing Students Feature
For the rest of the semester, we will be featuring select students’ creative writing that they are producing in our workshop classes. The work you will read will range from poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays. Please check back frequently as we hope to showcase a different student’s writing twice weekly.For our first feature, I am…
Student Poetry Contest Elicits 41 Entries
The English Department thanks the forty-one students who submitted poems for our first annual Poetry Contest. The winner will be announced on this blog in April. Share on FacebookTweet
Holiday Wishes for 2010 and Beyond
The drab room you see to the left is our department lounge, named for the distinguished GW Professor Emeritus of English John Reesing, Jr. The lounge is small and cramped, a graveyard for the empty water jugs from our water cooler, and not all that inviting, despite the recent addition of a new microwave and…
Poet Ed Skoog to Teach Poetry Writing Workshop
The English Department is pleased to announce that the 2009-2010 Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington will be the poet Ed Skoog, author of MISTER SKYLIGHT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). Skoog will teach ENGL 181, a poetry writing workshop, both semesters, and will helm a free creative writing workshop open to the Washington, D.C. community…
A special thanks to our benefactors
The GW English Department would like to thank the following benefactors for their generous support this year: Jenny Anne Burkholder (class of 1993) Ross A. Cherry and Catherine L. Omerod (class of 1980) Christine A. Coleman (class of 1991) Dr. Richard M. Flynn (class of 1987) Michal Fromer Mufson (class of 2003) Mr and Mrs…