Autoethnographic Poetry

Single works and brief collections of poetic expression presented in an array of styles.

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Autoethnographic Poetry: “Tired”

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·July 6, 2021·7 min read

“Tired,” the titular poem and the collection at large, is an autoethnography looking at the cause of so much pain, so much fatigue. Anthropomorphizing the feeling of being tired gave me creative license to dramatize and explore the real experiences of needing a break...

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“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning

Milton Carp·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·September 21, 2021·13 min read

"My poems are not entirely mine. They belong to the people and events of my passage through life. For once the dam is breached its contents flow unabridged. - Milton Carp, poet at 91"

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

Amanda Sieradzki·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 17, 2021·9 min read

"I called out the demons one by one. I named them. I gave them precise blocking and ultimately, I controlled where they stood, breathed, and bourréed. I gave them an entrance, and a stage, and then I sent them away."

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My Journey to Poetry: Nonagenarian Poet Milton Carp Reflects on His Process

Milton Carp·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Reflections on Method Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·October 31, 2021·12 min read

"Once I have the first line or two, the rest of the poem seems to flow rather easily. I write whatever comes to mind. Somewhat like a story rather than a poem. I then start to take out the excess words and phrases and pare it down to the essence of what I wish to say. Other times I do not change a word. The muses come and go on their own. I also believe poetry has chosen me."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Pandemic Poets of Puerto Rico

Guillermo Rebollo Gil·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 3, 2021·7 min read

"Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have."

Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

Marlen Harrison and Jacob Meadows·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Interviews Reflections on Method Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)

·December 13, 2021·11 min read

"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."

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Autoethnographic Literary Fiction & Poetry: A Woman in a Public Space

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Autoethnographic Poetry Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·December 23, 2021·12 min read

"A woman alone doesn’t belong to any male power or protection sphere. She can be kidnapped into fears and dreams."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: After the End

Oskar Szwabowski·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Climate Change Special Issue, 2022

·January 5, 2022·2 min read

"This autoethnographic poem is a question about the power of autoethnography in the face of the climate crisis. It is an expression of my dark fears, my depression that keeps me away from writing."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Teahl Light·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·January 20, 2022·11 min read

“My ability to be creatively vulnerable with my mental illness as well as the experiences which contributed to it will serve as a method of self-healing.”

Autoethnographic Poetry & Art: Traveling Through the Apocalypse

Vivian Wagner·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Autoethnographic Poetry Climate Change Special Issue, 2022

·February 22, 2022·8 min read

“We noticed signs of climate change and felt a sense of impending doom, even as we witnessed how human beings across the continent are trying to keep alive a sense of culture, art, and kindness.”

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Autoethnographic Poetry: Into the Dark, Inspired by Wendell Berry

Paula Aamli·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Climate Change Special Issue, 2022

·February 28, 2022·11 min read

"I have continued to explore the usefulness of various poetic forms as a mechanism for providing access to suppressed internal voices."

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Autoethnographic Poetry: First Summer in Whitehorse

Renée Francoeur·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Climate Change Special Issue, 2022

·April 12, 2022·6 min read

"This poem is rumination on how the personal experience of volunteering in never-before-seen flood relief efforts in the remote north reinforces the research that 'many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years.'"

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Autoethnographic Poetry

Autoethnographic Poetry: “Tired”

“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning

Autoethnographic Poetry: Embodying Bipolarism in Mania Variations II

My Journey to Poetry: Nonagenarian Poet Milton Carp Reflects on His Process

Autoethnographic Poetry: Pandemic Poets of Puerto Rico

Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

Autoethnographic Literary Fiction & Poetry: A Woman in a Public Space

Autoethnographic Poetry: After the End

Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Autoethnographic Poetry & Art: Traveling Through the Apocalypse

Autoethnographic Poetry: Into the Dark, Inspired by Wendell Berry

Autoethnographic Poetry: First Summer in Whitehorse

What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

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