This work of experimental poetry examines the interaction between the happy user of the open source format and the automated surface.
Poet Anne McCrary Sullivan discusses her latest book Learning Calabar, Notes from a Poet’s Year in Nigeria with editor Michelle Reale.
"My poems for this special issue seek to document a history of my choice, not just personally but humanly, to use autoethnography to weave through the personal and the political."
"I danced each morning with Pina Bausch. I became her pupil lifting my leg up in the air like a flamingo except feeling more awake than I’ve ever been."
"While living in Ecuador, I wrote “Home” which essentially is an homage to the “third-culture kid” phenomenon, when your parents are from another country than the one you grew up in."
“Woken Word” was born as my inner voice was awakening and the world, ironically was becoming “woke” while simultaneously retreating into isolation.
"Here is a humble attempt for the 2022 special issue that comes in simple words to show how climate change begins at home."
"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
"I see myself as someone whose organic inquiry and teaching are shaped by radical love, and I am willing to let myself be changed by my students."
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··3 min read"This autoethnographic poem resembles a wave: coming, going, history, hereafter...an endless exchange."
"Damned," the first publication in The AutoEthnographer's Bodily Autonomy issue, is the product of my confused reflection and internal conversations with the culture that raised me."
"The following autoethnographic poetry represents the experience of being a casual academic negotiating the workspace."
