A DC booklist–featuring several members of GWU English

To all current and prospective English majors: you too can live the glamorous life of the archival researcher at the Folger. Follow this link to learn a bit more about our GW-Folger Undergraduate Research Seminar, which will be accepting applications in spring 2009. Can you spot which of these dapper persons in the photo at…

Join the English Department Wednesday, October 20 at 6 p.m. for a poetry reading by three GW creative writing faculty members: Frederick Pollack, Lara Payne, and Daniel Saalfeld. The reading, which will be held in at 1776 G Street NW, Room 148, is part of our “Jenny 2” series, sponsored by the Jenny McKean Moore…

Many of the readers of this blog know about Poetry Out Loud, the phenomenally successful national poetry recitation and performance competition. Co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud builds on the contemporary resurgence of poetry as a spoken-word art. It’s not exactly a poetry slam, since the…

Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the inauguration is not just a bacchanal: it is also a literary event, you know. Share on FacebookTweet

English major Patrick Rochelle has a nice opinion piece in the most recent GW Hatchet. Rochelle urges the University not to shortchange the humanities, and cites last week’s Toni Morrison events as a notable celebration of the humanities in general and literature in particular. As Rochelle notes, Morrison referred to reading a mode of discovery–not…

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