"Everybody is a poet in the sense that everyone was/is making do—and making magic—with what they had/have."
“My ability to be creatively vulnerable with my mental illness as well as the experiences which contributed to it will serve as a method of self-healing.”
"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
Poet Anne McCrary Sullivan discusses her latest book Learning Calabar, Notes from a Poet’s Year in Nigeria with editor Michelle Reale.
"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
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All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic PoetryClimate Change Special Issue, 2022
··3 min read"This autoethnographic poem resembles a wave: coming, going, history, hereafter...an endless exchange."
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…
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.
My poem “Week After” explores my experience with assault, rape, and emotional abuse in a year and a half long relationship with an older man.
"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."
"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."