Kenny Fries Reading: In the Province of the Gods
Kenny Fries, author of In the Province of the Gods |
Kenny Fries, author of In the Province of the Gods |
I. I am a man. I’ve lived alone. I’ve been in love. I’ve played with fire, cursed the telephone, and basked in verse, in verve, and also Humid, terrestrial, mixed, nongenderspecific, have occasionally day’s tumult ushers in an evening with a lone moved a woman’s shut icecream stand, false promises of cone heart, although …
In case you missed it: GW’s first new dialogue on Postcolonial and Ethnic American Literatures! On Oct 5, 2018, we hosted GW’s first all-day forum on Postcolonial and Ethnic American Literatures! Faculty members Kavita Daiya, Patty Chu, Jennifer James, Antonio Lopez, and Daniel DeWispelare co-organized the Wang Fund Forum on “Crisis and Conflict in Postcolonial…
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US and UK, including Asian American works….
( ) death I cause I result in breaking heads along the highway. burial as it fits between transit. buttons make time stop and shirt buttons make time not work for me faulting clothes to shame physics. time as a round thing I fumble to break our paradox meant to save to leave machines. each…
Nikki Giovanni at the microphone; Toni Morrison seated in the wheelchair on the right, with Maya Angelou (less visible) in the wheelchair on the left. In Blacksburg, Virginia, on October 16th, 2012, James Madison University presented the Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement Award to two of America’s most recognized authors, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou. This…
WELCOME TO NATIONAL POETRY MONTH AT GWU ENGLISH! The first National Poetry Month was in April 1996 and was started by The Academy of American Poets as a month-long celebration of poems. In April 1996, I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago when my poetry professor, Elizabeth Alexander, tasked her students with creating…