“Modern-day Jane Austen” to read Thursday at 7 p.m.
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Allegra Goodman |
Kathleen Rooney, a GW alumnus, has just released a new book of poetry!Here is some information about her newest publication:“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) gives the marriage poem a case of vertigo, displacing while embracing the panoply of possibility when two people attempt to forge a life together. Kathleen Rooney creates a dream-state with fluid borders and…
from Gil Harris, Director of Graduate Studies:This year’s English Graduate Student Orientation is scheduled for Wednesday, August 26, from 9:00 till 11:00 am in Rome 771. All new graduate students — including first-year BA/MA students, entering MA students, and entering PhD students — are expected to attend, but everyone else is welcome too, especially faculty…
[action photo of blogging in motion by Nick Gingold] Follow this link to read a very good piece on why the English Department maintains a blog and Facebook page (short answer: we do it for you, the person reading this post, in the hope of community). Thank you, Calder Stembel, for writing a feature so…
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T. S. Eliot grabs the open mic to read the swingin’est “Waste Land” ever Lenthall House (606 21st Street, b/t F&G) Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Sign up for a slot (5 mins.) on the sheet in the English department office (Rome 760). Poets, prose writers, dramatists, screenwriters all welcome!…
For reasons that will become more clear very soon, may we suggest that you add to your summer reading list a work by Edward P. Jones? Perhaps his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Known World? Or maybe his breathtaking collection of stories All Aunt Hagar’s Children? These are books that are well worth your time…