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Cry Havoc: Poetry of War and Remembrance, 1968-2008

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Cry Havoc: Poetry of War and Remembrance, 1968-2008

Symposium March 30-31

When the story of the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, in March 1968 was finally revealed in the press, everything changed. Public opinion swung against the war, activism raged, and America began to withdraw from a fight that had lost all legitimacy. Poets, artists and activists remind us that all war is a failure of the moral imagination, and teach us through their language and social practice to guard against forgetting. more

Writers in Residence 2008-2009

Ciarán Carson

Distinguished Writer in Residence, March 1-March 6

Henrietta Rose-Innes

Caine Prize Writer in Residence, January 23-February 20
                
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Lannan Fellows Program

The Lannan Fellows Program, for Georgetown University undergraduates, introduces students to the exciting world of contemporary creative literature, through a year-long series of readings held on campus and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in downtown Washington, DC. Students have an opportunity to meet and speak with visiting writers, to engage them in conversation at informal seminars and receptions, and to attend readings from their literary work.

Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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