Congratulations, Seniors!

Cheers! from the Senior Celebration on April 30, 2020

What a wonderful send-off! It was such a treat to see so many faces gathered to enjoy the reflections and hopes shared for all of our graduates.

We’ll miss you in our classes, our office hours, and on the couch of our fourth-floor lounge, but we know you’ll continue to thrive, especially as readers and writers.

To that end, in lieu of our traditional senior pub night and graduation-day brunch, the English Department is giving each graduate a gift certificate to a beloved PDX locale you may be missing as much as Palatine Hill: Powell’s City of Books. Keep an eye on your lclark-email inbox!

Please let us know what you choose and share with us a picture of you and your gift.

Unsure what to get? We have some ideas…

Lyell Asher:

• Clive James, Cultural Amnesia
• Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff, War and “The Iliad”

Rachel Cole:

• Hart Crane, The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
• Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars

Kurt Fosso:

• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Kristin Fujie:

• Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
• Tommy Orange, There There

Karen Gross:

• Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by David Slavitt
• J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country

Jerry Harp:

• Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
• Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, translated by Clarence H. Miller

Andrea Hibbard:

• Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
• Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

Mike Mirabile:

• Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
• Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Will Pritchard:

• Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
• Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Mary Szybist:

• Carl Phillips, Pale Colors in a Tall Field
• E. J. Koh, The Magical Language of Others

Pauls Toutonghi:

• Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
• Haytham El Wardany, Book of Sleep

Don Waters:

• Flannery O’Connor, The Collected Stories
• Don Delillo, White Noise

Rishona Zimring:

• Alice Oswald, Falling Awake Poems
• Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories

For even more reading suggestions, check out the Lewis & Clark Faculty Best Books List.