Poet Sally Wen Mao Reads April 24 Poet Sally Wen Mao treats words like clay. She molds them into new ideas, even as they retain their original meaning. Language is shaped and adapted in her hands. She also plays with a variety of forms, including field notes, and travelogues. The results are original, ironic and…
This Friday, April 16, students and alumni of the Music Department will be protesting recent budget cuts in the department with a 24 hour concert. The concert begins at 4:30pm on Thursday, 4/15 at Kogan Plaza and will continue until 4:30pm on Friday, 4/16. Performances will include alumni bands and student groups, as well as…
Eventbrite RSVP. Please circulate. Please join the Africana Studies Program for The George Washington University’s Annual DC Emancipation Day Lecture “Frederick Douglass’s Tales of Abraham Lincoln” Robert S. Levine Professor of English, The University of Maryland General Editor, Norton Anthology of American Literature Drawing from his forthcoming book, The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard, 2016), Levine will…
Kate Flint presents a cultural history of flash photography and race (April 16) Interested in the relationship between words and images? Artsy or literary? Think of yourself as both? Thanks to a generous gift by Sharyn Rosenblum to the English Department, as well as to the generosity of the Department of Fine Arts & Art…
Trey Ellis The GW English Department is pleased to welcome Trey Ellis as part of the Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series. Ellis, currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University, is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and essayist. He is the author of several novels, Platitudes, Home Repairs, Bedtime Stories:…
Join Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Brando Skyhorse and Acting Director of Creative Writing Lisa Page in a discussion to be held this Monday at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital. Presented by Hill Center & PEN/Faulkner. 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE, at 7:00 PM. Free and Open to the Public.
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…
