"My poems for this special issue seek to document a history of my choice, not just personally but humanly, to use autoethnography to weave through the personal and the political."
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These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
"Here is a humble attempt for the 2022 special issue that comes in simple words to show how climate change begins at home."
"Ongoing horrific events painstakingly filled my mind when I submerged into Dante’s Commedia Divina. Our tragedy with nature revealed itself to me in its deepest form."
"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."
Daze Jefferies·
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··3 min read"This autoethnographic poem resembles a wave: coming, going, history, hereafter...an endless exchange."
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
"I danced each morning with Pina Bausch. I became her pupil lifting my leg up in the air like a flamingo except feeling more awake than I’ve ever been."
This collection of poems is a glimpse into the lives lived on the margins, where the laws put in place to protect basic rights and bodily autonomy cease to apply.
"I see myself as someone whose organic inquiry and teaching are shaped by radical love, and I am willing to let myself be changed by my students."
"Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have."