Today we're talking with the award-winning author, researcher, and performer, Shanita Mitchell about performance and autoethnography.
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.
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
This is a song for the Passover prophet as a critique on his inability during the Covid-19 pandemic to appear and provide solace and safety.
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.
The process of seeking pregnancy alone (by necessity, not choice) showed me how limited reproductive rights in the U.S. truly are—even before the recent loss of Roe vs. Wade, that policy that had so shaped my generation’s belief in our bodily autonomy.
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.
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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 wrote a study of my own faith, bankrupt as it may be, using story of my father, through the lens of Jewishness as I define it for myself.
Zona. I have always thought that names of diseases sound so beautiful. This is the story of a disease that lives with me.
