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5 Poems about Living with ME/CFS

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·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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Expressions of Care: How to Provide Grief Support

Lily Fessenden and Maegan Parker Brooks·
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·February 11, 2025·13 min read
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
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Breathe New Life: Prison Yoga

Sylvia Sensiper·
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·February 11, 2025·26 min read
This essay is about my experience teaching yoga in a California prison.
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Topophilia and Inner Landscapes: On Being a Body in a Place

Rachel Wyman·
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·February 11, 2025·7 min read
This multimedia essay explores the notion of an “inner landscape,” as well as the creative practice and self-study from which this idea emerged
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Redemption By Fire: The Remains of a Same-Sex Love

Anthony Domenick·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 5, 2025·18 min read
This autoethnography about same-sex love poses spiritual debate on the processes of grieving and interment.
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Poetry Out of the Closet: Towards a Queer Poetics

Susan Spilecki·
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·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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Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World

Laura Babb·
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·February 5, 2025·7 min read
In Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World, I reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self discovering the benefits of holistic therapies and shamanic healing.
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Echoes of War: Poems on Combat, Culture, and Survival

Roger Camp·
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·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·
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·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

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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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The Pivotal—and Pivoting—Role of the Arts During Covid

Eileen Cunniffe·
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·November 17, 2024·18 min read
This essay describes my experiences of the arts during the Covid-19 when arts and culture organizations had to pivot to virtual offerings.
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That Warm Alaskan Welcome: Commercial Genetics and Mothers’ Secrets

Francesca Penchant·
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·November 17, 2024·20 min read
Commercial genetics has become a cultural phenomenon. In this piece, I use autobiography to document discovering my biological father.
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