Institutional Knowledge: Summer 2015
Wisdom and How-Tos from Experts in the GW Community
Alumna Elizabeth Acevedo’s brand of poetry—slam poetry—is a highly specialized, intricately crafted art,
but poetry can be anything.
An exhibit at GW’s Brady Gallery tested that in May, when it had visitors create “found poems” by redacting, reordering, refashioning or colorizing a canvas of words made from a few pages of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Watch Elizabeth Acevedo perform and learn more about slam poetry.
Cut, paste and reorder the words
Redact, highlight
Refashion and colorize
Tweet Your Poem
Choose a method and use the first 380 words of Chapter One of Herman Melville's classic, Moby-
Dick (PDF) to create your own sonnet, ode or haiku, the next Prufrock—whatever you want.
Send it back to us by mail or email or share a photo of your creation on Twitter or Instagram with hashtag #GWFoundPoetry. We’ll publish some of the poems in the fall issue.
Examples of #GWFoundPoetry Created at the Brady Gallery Exhibition
Other Summer News
5 Questions on Slam Poetry
Elizabeth Acevedo, BA '10, one of the 2014 National Poetry Slam champions, mixes poetry and performance to explore life and identity as a Dominican woman and first-generation American.
Stitch by Stitch
Aspiring costume makers in the Department of Theatre and Dance sketch, stitch and style in GW's costume shop.
Square Dancing With a 3-D Printer
When the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design unveiled its end-of-the-year thesis exhibition this spring, a group of little plastic dragons celebrated the opening with more revelry than anyone in the gallery.
One for the Birds
It was a surprise to find four graduation hoods and a spiffy Stetson top hat in a box described as "cap and gown of Frank Alexander Wetmore."
Alumni News
A pair of politicos reconnect on the air, Eric Cantor appears at GW's Wall Street Symposium and more.
George Welcomes
Laverne Cox, Rick Santorum, five top CEOs and more.
Bookshelves
In Berkshire Beyond Buffett, GW Law professor Lawrence A. Cunningham offers an inside look at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, a colossus that manages to feel like a small business.