“The Homesick Restaurant”

Please join us for the debut reading of our GW-British Council Writer in Residence, Suhayl Saadi. This FREE READING is at 8:00 PM at the George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, between 19th and 20th Streets (City View Room, 7th Floor). More information about Suhayl Saadi may be found here at the British Council…

Read coverage from The Hatchet about Prof. Jeffrey Cohen, winner of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011-12 Share on FacebookTweet

In the comments to this post, Sasha wrote: Why can’t this come true? JJC, can we start some big petition for a student run, GW affiliated coffee house? Is there really any way of making this happen? … Jokes aside, is there really any of petitioning the school to allot some money toward turning fishbowl,…

From the electronic mailbag: Dear Dr. McAleavey— I was one of the lucky students that got to participate in the JMM poetry workshop with Dr. Van Cleave (Ryan). I am writing you today to give you my feedback on the course and Ryan as a workshop leader. First, these workshops are incredibly important to the…

We know it’s early to be advertising this, but why not place the date on your calendar now? Edward P. Jones, the first Wang Visiting Professor in Contemporary English Literature, will give his inaugural reading on Thursday January 29 2009 in the Jack Morton Auditorium (School of Media and Public Affairs, 805 21st Street NW)….

It’s National Poetry Month … and National Public Radio celebrated with a mention of GW’s own Jane Shore and her remarkable new book of poetry A Yes-Or-No Answer. From the NPR website: There’s blooming out — and darkening in — in Jane Shore’s collection, A Yes-Or-No Answer. This is a domestic book, filled with elegies…