“I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted.”
Technicolor Third Space: Developing the AutoEthnographer Literary & Arts Magazine
“In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal.”
Worlds without Women: Tolkien’s Middle-earth
“My thesis began to unfold after doing some research on my final topic idea about Tolkien’s world, female characters, female gamers, and the stereotype that females are the love interests or damsels in distress. I chose autoethnography because it allowed me to add that personal angle to the paper because I am a female writer, reader, and gamer.”
Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades
“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.”
My Journey to Poetry: Nonagenarian Poet Milton Carp Reflects on His Process
“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.”