Waimea community mural depicting first Poynesian explorers coming to Kaua’i. Photo: Sharon Snyder As Fall Semester 2014 is about to kick off, …

A Note from the Chair

Professor McRuer in Mexico’s Museo Nacional de Antropología It’s hard to believe that it’s already mid-August and that classes at The George …

This semester honors student Katherine Bradshaw took home first prize at GW Humanities Day for her work on Shakespeare’s King Lear!  Katherine is …

I first encountered Ogden Nash’s Giant Baby Panda poem settled like a gem in Marianne Moore’s 1944 essay “Feeling in Precision.” In …

Name Like an Empty Bag My house is a mess. Fuck. Fuck. I burned my  sweater on the stove. The smell of …

Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very …

The Flying Notebook With its spiraling metal body and white pages for wings my notebook flies over my bed while I sleep— …

Caminante no hay Camino Caminante, son tus huellas el camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. …

Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold,  Her hardest hue to hold.  Her early leaf’s a flower;  But only so …