Welcome to the Fall Semester!
The faculty of the English Department of the George Washington University welcomes all of our students to campus and to class.
Best wishes for a very successful year.
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Jane Shore recommended this poem by W. D. Snodgrass, written in 1959. April Inventory The green catalpa tree has turnedAll white; the cherry blossoms once more.In one whole year I haven’t learnedA blessed thing they pay you for.The blossoms snow down in my hair;The trees and I will soon be bare. The trees have more…