A DC booklist–featuring several members of GWU English

The Department of English is pleased to announce that Josie Price has won the first annual Student Poetry Contest for her piece “Floor-Scrapers.” Josie will be awarded a prize of $500. We also expect her to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and/or a Pulitzer some day. The competition garnered forty-one excellent poems, and we…

[illustration: from the Library of Congress’s rare books collection: The Book of Urizen by William Blake] GW alumnus Malcolm O’Hagan (class of 1966) has kindly arranged for a small group of GW students to have a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library of Congress, and the chance to admire up close some of its most precious…

Well we know what the entire English Department was doing yesterday. Due to the 13 comments I got on the Facebook post yesterday asking for famous literary quotes about snow/despair I found myself googling like mad today to appease you all. So without further ado, here is what this week’s madness reminds you of: Joseph…

Here is a list of planned public events offered by the English Department this spring. There is lots available for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends in the wider community. Please put at least one of these events on your calendar. Several other events are in the works; please check back here for updates. JLL…

DC Writer Jada Bradley attended our recent panel Knowing the Known World, and blogs about the experience at Examiner.com My thanks to everyone who attended and made the event such a success. I believe it was the largest literary event GW has ever offered exclusively for its alumni. Share on FacebookTweet

This is an image that has been circulating online since last week, when The New Yorker magazine posted it on its blog. [Click here for a link to the White House Flickr site, where you can see a huge image of the same.] As an English professor and as someone who loves to be edited…