Poem of the Day: Ted Berrigan’s “Sonnet LI”
Gus Cannon gulping, “I called myself Banjo Joe!”
Congratulations to Chris Affambi! His letter to the editor of the Washington Post got published!
Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” has been one of my favorite poems…
On November 19, New York Times-Bestselling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah hosted an intimate conversation with the students of Professor Annie Liontas’ Advanced Fiction class. Adjei-Brenyah’s work has appeared or is forthcoming from a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, Literary Hub, the Paris Review, Guernica, and Longreads. His debut book Friday Black was…
Vacation on Mount Desert Island Nina Gilden Seavey, Sunset on Bar Harbor, 2015 So where would we go for vacation in 2015? Various considerations set aside the old pattern of the northern Minnesota lake. My daughter Eleanor (GWU 2010) has been living for a while with her boyfriend Greg Fortier in Manhattan. Greg has…
Here is some news from our British and Postcolonial Studies Cluster, where some faculty have been publishing new research and forging exciting institutional connections in the US, UK, India and Ireland. Jenny Green-Lewis is glad to say that her essay on Victorian photography and the novel, written for the new Oxford Handbook of the Victorian…
Although our undergraduate majors have been enjoying this site for a month, many new readers are finding the English Department’s blog this week via the Colonial Cable. We welcome you, and encourage you to have a look around. Try the “Contents at a Glance” list on the righthand side of this page. You may also…