FINAL EDWARD P. JONES READING AT GW
The event will be held not in a cavernous auditorium, but a comfortable room in the Academic Center
one week from today
Our very own Jane Shore will be judging, along with writer/radio personality Garrison Keiller and actor Alfre Woodard. Host is John Leguizamo. The poetry recitation competition gets going at 7 p.m., but Prof. Shore notes that it’s better to get there EARLY. Share on FacebookTweet
The English Department welcomes our alumnus, Jason Filardi (’93) back to campus in Spring 2009. A successful writer and producer now residing in Los Angeles, Jason has agreed to teach a course called “Screenwriting” (English 182.10) that will admit fifteen lucky undergraduates. The application form is here and can also be picked up in the…
… its recent benevolent, awesome, outstanding, pure of heart, righteous, sophisticated, godlike donors. Among those who have contributed to our department’s mission recently are: Courtney Wang (2007) Olga Tsyganova (2007) Jenny Anne Burkholder (1993) I find it especially heartening when our recent alumni donate — especially because I suspect they are still paying off their…
Had you taken Prof. Carrillo’s class on “Evil,” you, too, could have written about Marilyn Manson. For this post, I’ll just quote at length from GW student Ali Peters, writing in Monday’s Hatchet: It began with Marilyn Manson. One of my first college assignments was to dissect the lyrics to “The Beautiful People.” For a kid…
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“A few years ago the fund endowed the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington to perpetuity. As long as there are creative writing classes at this university, our students and faculty will be able to profit from the presence on campus of writers like the one we showcase tonight.” -Prof. Faye Moskowitz, in opening the 2002-2003 JMM…
