There are multiple approaches to find one's poetic voice depending on the lens one chooses as a part of the author’s creative process.
This particular piece, "What is Human, Remains" looks back at my first year as a teacher, and the unexpected activism in my students.
This work, a narrative and poetic account of a school shooting, provides an experiential entry into the experience from the point of view of a faculty member.
Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic PoetryEducationFrom the EditorsVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
··4 min read A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.
I offer the following five poems to you. I hope that when you read/hear them you see a way into your own stories and ideas of poetic voice.
We invite you to participate in National Poetry month with us by reading and writing over at The AutoEthnographer's new Facebook group.
"My parents drank wine with dinner every night. There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
This autoethnographic account explores the complex relationship between language and identity.
Editor Guillermo Gil's latest book review examines Chin who highlights her relationship to things, and/or her obsessing over wanting and buying things, and many more.
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