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Jane Shore’s Poem “A Yes-or-No Answer”
Here is the full version of Jane Shore’s poem from her newest book with the same title. The poem was recently featured in Alan Cheuse’s poetry book review on NPR. For more details, look to Prof. Cohen’s post below. A Yes-or-No Answer Have you read The Story of O?Will Buffalo sink under all that snow?Do…
“Sister Rosetta’s Stone”
Read all about why this gravestone matters at the website for Professor Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout! An excerpt: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the pioneering gospel musician and instrumentalist, finally has a gravestone marking her resting place at Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. Since her passing in 1973, the gravesite of Sister Rosetta had been a barren…
Haylie Swenson: First Winner of the Michael Camille Essay Prize
Congratulations to MEMS PhD student Haylie Swenson for winning the Michael Camille Essay Prize! The prize was established this year and sponsored by postmedieval: A journal of medieval cultural studies, Palgrave Macmillan, and the BABEL working group. Her essay, “Lions and Latour Litanies in The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt,” took first place out of twenty…
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If you’ve donated money to the department over the past year, you are already on our mailing list (your name should also appear in the “Department Supporters” box to the right: thank you for your generosity! We couldn’t do much of what we undertake without your support). Early in the fall you will receive our…
Poet Ed Skoog to Teach Poetry Writing Workshop
The English Department is pleased to announce that the 2009-2010 Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington will be the poet Ed Skoog, author of MISTER SKYLIGHT (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). Skoog will teach ENGL 181, a poetry writing workshop, both semesters, and will helm a free creative writing workshop open to the Washington, D.C. community…
Howard Jacobson’s Newest Novel
Lots of us remember last year’s visit to GW of English novelist Howard Jacobson, our 3rd British Council U.K. Writer-in-Residence, and author of the witty and wonderful Kalooki Nights. Well, the “Jewish Jane Austen” (or, as he might prefer, “English Woody Allen”) has a new novel, The Finkler Question, recently published in Britain. Click here…