Creative Writing Presents Its Annual Fall Student Reading
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T. S. Eliot grabs the open mic to read
the swingin’est “Waste Land” ever
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T. S. Eliot grabs the open mic to read
the swingin’est “Waste Land” ever
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Our sincere gratitude to the following alumni who contributed to our departmental mission last month: Michael Y. Bennett (2002) Winston Eldridge (1985) Dr. Richard M. Flynn (1987) Dr. Robin Meader (1992) Laura A. Springer (1997) Mr. John George Sussek (1979) We will mail a copy of Edward P. Jones’s novel The Known World to each…
The poem below is from senior Sam Chiron, who is a Political Science major. Sam is taking Jane Shore’s Advanced Poetry (117W) class, and this poem is the result of a fugue assignment. Spinnning for Jessica the teacher is a spinning smile is too skinny spinning yelling “keep spinning”i am spinning, the teacher is spinning,…
Our Spring 2011 Newsletter: Clearly something to applaud! As I write, the English office is quieter than usual, but not because no one getting work done. Rather, everyone is hunkered down: faculty are busy reading and grading; students are even busier writing papers and studying for final exams, which end this Monday, May 9. For…
I’ve received a few emails about the post below, in which I suggested that the reason CCAS has difficulty retaining its doctoral students is simple economics: we do not support our PhD students with the same frequency or at the same level as the schools to which we compare ourselves. My experience is limited mainly…
You may have heard that we have decided to celebrate the successful residency of Edward P. Jones in GW’s English Department with neither a bang nor whisper, but with what might be called a whispered bang. Admittedly that does not sound right. So let’s just say that we are holding an event that does not…
JEWISH LITERATURE LIVE A few years ago Ariel Sabar quit his day job as an award winning journalist in order to work on a book. The shift from journalism to book writing was a challenge, but even more challenging was the subject of his book My Father’s Paradise, his father and his father’s history as…