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Check out Jane’s poem “Last Words”: Once the patient stops drinking liquids, he’s gotup to 14 days to live. If he takes even a sipof water, you reset the clock. Eleven days without a drop. The rabbimade his rounds. They stopped herIV and her oxygen. I asked themto please turn off the TV’s live feedto…

English will celebrate Chris Sten’s recent collection on September 13 A lot is going on in the English Department this month. In addition to the just-announced Evening with Toni Morrison, we are thrilled to be celebrating the publication of Prof. Chris Sten’s book Literary Capital: A Washington Reader on Tuesday, September 13 from 4-5:30 p.m….

Prof. Margaret Soltan has been asked to be part of the second cohort of professors to give lectures at Udemy, a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Her first lecture, “Poetry and the Arrest of Life,” is here.  (Scroll down to “poetry.”) Publisher’s Weekly gave Prof. Jane Shore‘s That Said: New and Selected Poems, a starred review….

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We are honored to have Sarah Werner of the Folger Shakespeare Library teaching a seminar for us this coming spring. Though the seminar is offered at the graduate level, we are opening five spots in the class to undergraduate English majors who are interested in the subject and who would like to do some advanced…

This feature is the beginning of a story entitled “Baby Danny” by Drew Welke, a student in Ginnie Hartman’s Intermediate Fiction 103 class. Usually, two people would have to stay in the shop late to close up, but today, Jack had been left alone. Everyone else was helping unload tents, tables, and chairs at a…