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5 Poems about Living with ME/CFS

Mary Ann Honaker·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·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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Shattered and Patched: Life in a Regional Comprehensive University

Janet Tilstra·
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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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By Ksenia Makagonova

Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma

Emily LaVergne·
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·November 1, 2024·5 min read
Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey the profound...
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How to Fragment and Unite: An Autoethnography of Collage and Poems

Krzysztof Konecki and Alec Grant·
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·September 24, 2024·28 min read
We address how to fragment and unite in this autoethnographic study, which we developed over the Messenger App. It utilises poetry and collage around death, loneliness, postmodern culture, and the latter’s related oppressive discourses and language, and alienation.
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Armored Corps: The Spirit of Combativeness and Human Resilience – Graphic Narratives (2022-23)

Vincenzo Cohen·
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·September 10, 2024·24 min read
"Armored Corps: The spirit of combativeness and human resilience" is the theme of a graphic narrative project.
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Imbroglio: Poetry on Depression, Anxiety, and Bulimia Nervosa

Hannah Englander·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 29, 2024·7 min read
In my work , the issues of depression, anxiety, and bulimia nervosa are discussed heavily.
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Start Again and Sparkle Always with Celestial Bodies

Xan Nowakowski·
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·May 17, 2024·25 min read
I’d take the past and make it straight, Even though it’s complicated, We’ve got time to start again, I don’t know if you can hear me…
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The Call of Otherness: Love and Poetry

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·November 5, 2023·4 min read
The otherness is not somewhere out there. It’s in me. Still, my search did not stop to this discovery. It took me profoundly even further. It took me to love and poetry.
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Aspy In The Skype With Diamonds (A Love Poem)

Robin Knight·
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·October 20, 2023·10 min read
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
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Ten Powerful Poems by Albanian Poets and Their Translations

Vlora Konushevci·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·October 20, 2023·24 min read
You will find ten poems by ten Albanian poets (mostly women poets) from Kosovo and Albania and our diaspora, translated into English by me.
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An Experimental Film About Television & the Quick Prize of Midnight Plasticity

Devin Welch·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 30, 2023·3 min read
The poem driving this experimental film about television considers the insomniacs who wake at the same time each night in rhythm.
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Poetry Helped Me Reclaim My History: Poems of/from Photos

Paul lieber·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 4, 2023·12 min read
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
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