Haiku Contest Winners
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud.
The GW English Department congratulates the winners of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Haiku contest! All are graduates of Creative Writing courses in this department, which makes us extra proud.
Andy, Kathryn, and their officiant Chris It’s almost Valentine’s Day and the English Department happened to notice that one of its very own alums, Kathryn Frazier, Class of 2003, is featured in the most recent edition of Colonial Cable: News for GW Alumni and Friends. Kathryn was married to Andy Stone (a GW Political Communication major,…
Suffolk County New York Poet Laureate Pramila Venkateswaran Professor Pramila Venkateswaran, who received her PhD from GW’s English Department in 1988, recently became the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York. We chatted with Professor Venkateswaran about her selection as laureate, her poetry, and her memories of the GW English department: 1. When did you graduate…
GW English Professor Jennifer Chang As we continue our Introducing New Faculty series, we’re excited to introduce you to Jennifer Chang, who will be joining us in the fall, in the Creative Writing Program, as an Assistant Professor of Poetry. Listed by former poet laureate Rita Dove as one of the young poets she is…
The English department is delighted to announce that Melissa Mogollon is the winner of this year’s Student Poetry Prize for her poem “Salon.” David Meni is the winner of this year’s Academy of American Poets Prize for his set of poems titled “Intermezzo.” There was a robust set of entries for both prizes this…
“In restrospect, I wouldn’t major in anything else”: we continue here our series reporting on GW English Alums and their successes. Writer Jack Sussek, who graduated from GW “when Washington was still a sleepy town, [and] when K Street was simply the name of a downtown street no more significant than G,” has published his…
http://lunchbuddiesplus.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/backtoschool.gif Now that we’re all settled in for the semester, and following the great turnout for the Inaugural Digital Humanities/Dean’s Scholar in Shakespeare lecture (delivered by Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library) we want to let you know a bit more about this blog and the upcoming semester. Samantha Yakas with Bruce Jay…