Who Knew WashU?
Question: Which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet used a hand-drawn Ouija board, now in WashU’s collection, when writing his 90-page poem “The Book of Ephraim”?
Answer: B) James Merrill. There’s a current exhibit on view at Olin Library, “James Merrill’s Poetic Places,” highlighting locations important to his literary legacy. Read more about his personal artifacts.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Laura Kipper, a staff member at WashU Medicine, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” prize!
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Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan
Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan, an assistant professor at the WashU School of Public Health, is working to shape young people’s lives by developing ways to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Those behaviors can pay dividends from better learning to preventing chronic disease down the road.
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Komal Shah on ‘Making Their Mark’
Influential collector Komal Shah discusses “Making Their Mark.” Currently on view at WashU’s Kemper Art Museum, the exhibition places work by renowned figures such as Howardena Pindell, Joan Mitchell and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in dialogue with contemporary practitioners such as Katharina Grosse, Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze and Mary Weatherford.
