Inaugural poets
Yes we know: the bars are open til the wee hours, and you will be hungover in next Wednesday’s classes. But the inauguration is not just a bacchanal: it is also a literary event, you know.
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Jane Shore on NPR
Professor Jane Shore discussed Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” on NPR’s show Marketplace. You can listen to the program and read a transcript here. The beautiful poem is below. “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is…
What do professors do with their sabbaticals?
If you are Margaret Soltan, among the projects you might undertake are blog posts that capture vividly the experience of being by the sea in the off-season. Between land and water is a philosophical verge. Professor Soltan captures her own moment of drift in prose passage that reads like poetry. An excerpt: Off-season, the sand…
Edward P. Jones Residency in the GW Magazine
From the latest edition: Renowned Writers Share Their Craft Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones began his GW professorship in January with a public reading of his novel The Known World. Last fall, English professors compiled a wish list of sorts: If they could have any modern literary great join the faculty, who would it…
Art Spiegelman TONIGHT
Do not miss Art Spiegelman tonight at 7 PM in the Jack Morton Auditorium (SMPA). Tonight’s event concludes the series of writers making presentations at GW through the “Jewish Literature Live” program. The series was generously funded by David Bruce Smith. Share on FacebookTweet
English Department in the News/Kudos
Thomas Mallon and his CW colleagues offer one-on-one instruction to to aspiring writers. This month’s E-magazine from Columbian College leads with two items about English: a piece about our Creative Writing program, which gives students one-on-one access to accomplished writers, including award winners Edward P. Jones, Thomas Mallon, and Jane Shore; and a piece about…
From the Times Literary Supplement: Untimely Matter
From a superb review of Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare in the TLS: Share on FacebookTweet