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5 Poems about Living with ME/CFS

Mary Ann Honaker·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 11, 2025·10 min read
I use poetry to describe living with ME/CFS, an illness that is chronic and invisible, thus bringing awareness to this little known diagnosis.
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Poetry Out of the Closet: Towards a Queer Poetics

Susan Spilecki·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 5, 2025·12 min read
In this work, I unpack how realizing my queerness has influenced how I write my poetry.
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Echoes of War: Poems on Combat, Culture, and Survival

Roger Camp·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·December 14, 2024·5 min read
Military culture includes a rich collection of symbols, beliefs, values, language, dress, behaviors, relationships, and work.
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The Taste of Songbirds: Poems of Love and Memory

Jill Gonet·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·December 14, 2024·11 min read
This work illustrates the very personal process of a Chinese-born immigrant to the U.S. and a U.S. born citizen learning about each other's cultures over the course of a 27 year marriage.
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Shattered and Patched: Life in a Regional Comprehensive University

Janet Tilstra·
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·December 13, 2024·4 min read
“What is it like to live and work in a regional comprehensive university during a time of major organizational change and intense conflict?”
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Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience

Venus Watson·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·November 7, 2024·3 min read
Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience Author’s Memo These three poems are autoethnographic as they utilize personal...
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Heavy Machinery: How to Write the Rust Belt

Jodie Childers·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·October 13, 2024·6 min read
Hard Water: An Autoethnography of American Rust is concerned with the spatial formations of capitalism and the psychology of class hegemony.
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A Simple Text, A Complex Reckoning: On Sisters and Queers

Jen Majoor·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·October 12, 2024·8 min read
It is a reckoning on sisters and queers after themes of family violence, sibling disconnection and queer isolation emerge.
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How to Fragment and Unite: An Autoethnography of Collage and Poems

Krzysztof Konecki and Alec Grant·
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·September 24, 2024·28 min read
We address how to fragment and unite in this autoethnographic study, which we developed over the Messenger App. It utilises poetry and collage around death, loneliness, postmodern culture, and the latter’s related oppressive discourses and language, and alienation.
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Armored Corps: The Spirit of Combativeness and Human Resilience – Graphic Narratives (2022-23)

Vincenzo Cohen·
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·September 10, 2024·24 min read
"Armored Corps: The spirit of combativeness and human resilience" is the theme of a graphic narrative project.
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Imbroglio: Poetry on Depression, Anxiety, and Bulimia Nervosa

Hannah Englander·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 29, 2024·7 min read
In my work , the issues of depression, anxiety, and bulimia nervosa are discussed heavily.
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Horror, Hate, and Hysteria: How to Survive the Exigencies of War

Kathleen Hellen·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 13, 2024·4 min read
I write out of the consciousness that I am both a product of the violence of war and a migratory being—not only in the strictest sense of physical displacement, but also in belonging.
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