About the project

Each student was assigned three poets that related to each other in some way. The focus of this project was to identify the similarities and differences of each and create their individual posters. Each poster is connected by a united theme, showing individuality and connection through their compositions.

Meet the Poets

T.S. Eliot is widely known as a poet, a literary critic, a dramatist, an editor, and a publisher. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 for his work and is highly acclaimed. His work was even referenced in the popular book "The Great Gatsby". 

T.S. Eliot

Andrea Abi-Karam is a punk, SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) cyborg , poet-performer. They have done several performances of her work, including RADAR, The Poetry Project, The STUD, Basilica Soundscape, TransVisionaries, Southern Exposure, Counterpulse, & Radius for Arab-American Writers. They recieved the honors of the 2023 Jerome Alternates Grant Award and the Spring 2024 Black Mountain Institute UNLV Breakout Writer. Andrea has also worked on several novels and edited one as well.

Code-Davinci-002 is a artificial inteligence agent who wrote poetry. This sparked much debate surrounding poetry and how having poetry written by artificial intelligence took away from the purpose of it. The argument is that how can something portray feelings in a genuine way if it doesn't have them itself. 

These collages ended up being the basis for the future posters.

The focus from these two sprints were the colors black, white, and bright green. The other pieces taken as inspiration were the overlapping of the text and images intertwined with the design.