Attention Student Poets: Two End-of-Year Contests!

This year’s DC Reads selection is Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.  Join GW English’s Aaron Hamburger in a discussion of the book in relation to Washington, DC (particularly the Logan Circle neighborhood) on November 5 at 7 PM.  The discussion — and samples of Ethiopian food! — will be at the Takoma…

                        The GW English Graduate Student Association                              Symposium 2017:        (re)collections:       Tracing Power & Community in Cultural Memory  Date:  Friday, February 24, 2017 Location:  219 Gelman…

Update: We regret to announce that this event is postponed — stay tuned for further details. Aldon Lynn Nielson  will be hosting a discussion: “The Cry of my People:” Jazz, Poetry and the Black Arts on Friday, April 19 2-4 PM in Rome Hall 771 http://artonair.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/bodyview_enlarged/show/9063/node-image.jpg An alum from our very own English department, Aldon Nielsen…

Next month, Margaret Soltan will lead a discussion on the subject of trust, using the story “Trust Me” by John Updike, for a class organized through Books@Work, a non-profit which “brings professor-led seminars to workplaces and community settings.” In March and April, she’ll give a series of public lectures on poetry at the Georgetown Library.  Here’s the…

Vaddey Ratner Reading February 12th 7:30 PM Honors Townhouse  (714 21st St NW) Author of the New York Times bestselling novel In the Shadow of the Banyan, Vaddey Ratner will be giving a reading at George Washington University TOMORROW!  “Full of beauty, even joy. . . What is remarkable, and honorable, here is the absence of anger, and…

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