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Our former World Literature Writer in Residence emails that her son Zuko aka “King Zuko” was born ten months ago. Congratulations, Nokuthula! Share on FacebookTweet
Mark DeCicco won the award for best graduate paper at the recent meeting of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (check out the guest speaker). His prize: publication in the Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, a scholarly journal with a substantial readership. Lowell Duckert was selected for Honorable Mention in…
Looking into Tim Johnston’s smoky gray eyes, one finds no presumption lurking there. His answers are direct, and he pauses for new questions; his voice is clear and his manner is pleasant. Johnston is the new Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence Fellow. Profiling a writer is unlike straight biography for, say, a firefighter. There’s the added…
What influences poet Ed Skoog? Really, the question should be where is Ed Skoog influenced. Skoog, the newest Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Residence, may be in DC right now, but whose to say where he will be next fall. Even he does not know or want to know. “I don’t want to pick a…
We are thrilled to learn that Howard Jacobson, who was in residence at GW last spring through a joint program with the British Council, has won the 2010 Booker Prize. Congratulations to Howard! Share on FacebookTweet
Carrie Cummings is a student in Professor McAleavey’s Intermediate Poetry 2, 107W, class. Mother’s Arrival in Omaha, 1985 He peeled her off the canvas of a Klimt he saw in Paris,wrapped her up in brown paper– her red tendrils leaked from the edges –and shipped her home to meet his mother(who, upon her arrival, said,“the…