Here is the full version of Jane Shore’s poem from her newest book with the same title. The poem was recently featured in Alan Cheuse’s poetry book review on NPR. For more details, look to Prof. Cohen’s post below. A Yes-or-No Answer Have you read The Story of O?Will Buffalo sink under all that snow?Do…
It’s National Poetry Month … and National Public Radio celebrated with a mention of GW’s own Jane Shore and her remarkable new book of poetry A Yes-Or-No Answer. From the NPR website: There’s blooming out — and darkening in — in Jane Shore’s collection, A Yes-Or-No Answer. This is a domestic book, filled with elegies…
This creative nonfiction piece comes from senior Matthew Lukach, a student in Prof. Lisa Page’s 182 Special Topics class. Thanks, Nigga In high school I worked one night a week—Saturday—bussing tables at a small diner-type place on Broadway and Twenty First Ave. in Nashville, Tennessee called Noshville. The place posed as a New York Jewish…
ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS,My name is Rachael Baird, and I have been serving as the Communications Liaison this semester. As one of my farewell tasks, I am organizing an informal gathering on Monday, May 12 to celebrate our graduation. Hopefully by then everyone will have finished their exams, papers, thesis… college! Though we’ll be graduating soon,…
Despite three degrees in English and being the chair of a department of such, I am a terrible speller. I blame the convergence of two phenomena: A lifetime of study of Middle English, that happy go lucky linguistic intermezzo when the rules of proper spelling hadn’t been invented yet My own hastiness, prompted these days…
In addition to Le Culte du Moi, described in a recent post, GW hosts a number of opportunities for its undergraduates to publish creative writing as well as participate on editorial boards.Amy Katzel, editor of Wooden Teeth, has contributed descriptions of the others: Wooden Teeth, GW Review, and Mortar & Pestle. Amy would also like…
Posted at the request of Keren Veisblatt: At Le Culte, we pride ourselves on our exclusivity and the high quality of the works we publish. This year has been a rebuilding one for us, as many of our founding members have graduated. However, throughout this transition, we are confident this year’s issue will be the…
Reflection on the Class Contemporary Literature Nadeem Aslam This course was amazing. It provided a unique opportunity for me as an English major to learn about contemporary literature. I think that one of the things that I was lacking was an awareness of talented writers in my own time, especially international ones. The fact that…
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…
Inside HigherEd, a popular and respected website that focuses upon issues in postsecondary education, features an excerpt from a recent book by two GW English Department faculty. Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan’s Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book argues for the return of aesthetics to the…
