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Yale Crisis Center: SML Stacks

Multimedia Project with the Yale Schwarzman Center's Desire Lines

What does Yale say when no one is looking?

"This is the central question that shaped our exploration of this campus’ desire lines. Hundreds of thousands of thoughts go through our minds during our time at this university, and not all of them get said out loud. Carved into the very walls of this institution, however, are our most intimate thoughts and feelings about ourselves, each other, and our place in the world. Through the collaboration of found poetry and typography, we present to you a living document of the notes, scribbles and conversations we have with each other through the writing on the furniture of the Sterling Memorial Library Stacks: a place where anonymous thoughts have become a collective institutional memory."

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FULL TEXT OF FOUND POEM

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