Editorial for Special Issue: Using Poetry and Poetic Inquiry as Political Response for Social Justice

Authors

  • Sandra Lea Faulkner Bowling Green State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29372

Keywords:

academy, community, poetic inquiry, politics

Abstract

Editorial for special issue on Poetry and Social Justice

Author Biography

Sandra Lea Faulkner, Bowling Green State University

Sandra L. Faulkner is Professor of Communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships among culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. Her poetry appears in places such as Gulf Stream, Literary Mama, and damselfly. She authored three chapbooks, Hello Kitty Goes to College (dancing girl press), Knit Four, Make One (Kattywompus), and Postkarten aus Deutschland (http://liminalities.net/12-1/postkarten.html), and a memoir in poetry, Knit Four, Frog One (Sense, 2014). Her latest book is Real Women Run: Running as Feminist Embodiment (Routledge). She received the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association for her narrative work and the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award.

References

Faulkner, S.L. (2009). Poetry as method: Reporting research through verse. New York, NY: Routledge.

Faulkner, S.L. (2017a). Poetic inquiry: Poetry as/in/for social research. In P. Leavy (Ed.), The handbook of arts-based research (pp. 208-230). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Faulkner, S.L. (2017b). Poetry is politics: A poetry manifesto. International Review of Qualitative Research, 10(1), 89-96. doi: doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2017.10.1.89

Fisher, T. (2009). Outside the republic: A visionary political poetics. Textual Practice, 23, 975–986. doi:10.1080/09502360903361600

Orr, D. (2008). The politics of poetry. Poetry, 192(4), 409–418.

Parini, J. (2008). Why poetry matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Strine, M.S. (1989). The politics of asking women’s questions: Voice and value in the poetry of Adrienne Rich. Text and Performance Quarterly, 9(1), 24-41. doi:10.1080/10462938909365910

Vuong, O. (2016). Ocean Vuong on why reading poetry is political. PBS News Hour, April 11, 2016. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/ocean-vuong/

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Published

2018-03-01

How to Cite

Faulkner, S. L. (2018). Editorial for Special Issue: Using Poetry and Poetic Inquiry as Political Response for Social Justice. Art/Research/International:/A/Transdisciplinary/Journal, 3(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.18432/ari29372