Poem of the Day: Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Welcome back to campus, and a special welcome to first-year and newly declared English majors just joining us for the first time! The English Department faculty are excited to have you back to our classrooms.
To commemorate our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, the British Council is generously providing a substantial book fund. Nadeem Aslam has drawn up a list of contemporary British fiction he would like to see in the Gelman Library purchased through this fund. Here it is: Haunts of the Black Masseur – Charles Sprawson Redundancy of…
Our Open House this afternoon brought together a wide variety of English Department community members, everyone from first-year students to graduating seniors, as well as graduate students, alums, and of course faculty. Thanks to all who came! We closed the event with a tribute to Toni Morrison led by Professor Evelyn Schreiber. It was moving…
If you are a close reader of this blog, you’ve likely noticed that I’ve been posting an awful lot lately. I suppose it is time to finally come out of the closet: I am indeed the new chair of the English Department at the George Washington University. I have been happy to be part of…
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world…
Professor Tara Wallace was recently in attendance at the Boswell Book Festival at the Dumfries House, Ayrshire, Scotland. Described by organizers as “The World’s Only Festival of Biography & Memoir,” the event was held May 8-10, 2015. Before the official events, Professor Wallace spent some delightful time in the company of Margaret Boswell Elliot (a…