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New poetry club at UC ANDREA WARD | CONTRIBUTOR
Chairs and lime-green couches are arranged in a large circle next to the stacks in the Elliston Poetry Room in Langsam Library. Roughly 30 students talk and laugh while music plays in the background, and different scenes flash from a projection that stretches across the ceiling and the far wall. A podium placed next to a stack closes the circle. There’s enough room for someone to stand behind it without bumping elbows with a shelf that houses a portion of the room’s poetry collection. Nineteen students stand behind the podium this evening, and each of them share some of their poetry. This is the first open mic
of the Cincinnati Poetry Collective, a new poetry club at the University of Cincinnati. Organizers Ryan Talbot, Malik Aguiniga and Ava Whitson, all of whom are second-year students at UC, founded the club to fill a poetry hole on campus, they said. The three of them met in fall 2018 when they sat next to each other during a small introductory poetry class taught by Kimberly Grey. “All throughout the class, we kind of slowly opened up with each other,” said Aguiniga, the vice president of the club and a communications student. Talbot, Aguiniga and Whitson have been writing since childhood, but Grey’s class cemented their shared Poetry Continued on Page 2
Hannah Beachler, a University of Cincinnati DAAP graduate, won an Academy Award for Best Production Design. PROVIDED BY DAVID AGELL | CREDIT TO CHRIS BRITT
DAAP graduate wins Academy Award KEELY BROWN | NEWS EDITOR Hannah Beachler, a University of Cincinnati graduate, recently became the first African-American to win an Oscar at the 2019 Academy Awards for best production design. Beachler was nominated for her work on the 2018 blockbuster film “Black Panther.” Beachler, 48, first attended Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where she studied film. She later became a student at UC’s College of
Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP), where she studied fashion design before landing her dream job on the “Black Panther” production team. DAAP programs are annually ranked among other top world and national class programs. Beachler’s time at UC prepared her for a job as a production designer. Throughout her career, she has worked on numerous notable movies, including the 2015 Rocky film “Creed,” the 2016 best-picture winning drama
“Moonlight,” the Miles Davis biopic “Miles Ahead” and Beyoncé’s 2016 television special and visual album “Lemonade.” “Black Panther,” produced by Marvel Studios, is the world’s ninth highestgrossing film of all time, racking up $1.35 billion at the box office. According to Marvel’s website, the movie follows the story of T’Challa, a superhero who steps up to lead DAAP Oscar Continued on Page 4
A member of Cincinnati Poetry Collective reads one of her poems at the Cincinnati Poetry Collective’s first event on Feb. 28, 2019 in the Elliston Poetry Room in Langsam Library. ALEX MARTIN | CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER