Hi Folks,
I’m pleased to share the news that a new open-access book is available through the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wacclearinghouse.org). The book appears in the book series, Practices & Possibilities, which I co-edit with Aimee McClure, Aleashia Walton, and Jagadish Paudel.
Research is the Poetry: Poetic Inquiry for Writing Studies Researchers
By Sandra L. Tarabochia
In Research is the Poetry, Sandra L. Tarabochia demonstrates the promise of poetic inquiry, the arts-based method of creating poems with, as, and in relation to qualitative research data. Informed by studies from a range of disciplines, each chapter introduces a particular poetic research practice and features dynamic examples from Tarabochia’s eight-year longitudinal study of faculty writing lives. Thorough discussion of the affordances and challenges of each approach and guiding questions for reflection prompt readers to imagine when, why, and how they might practice poetic inquiry in their own research contexts. Candidly sharing her own process of discovering and learning the method, Tarabochia makes a compelling case for poetic inquiry as a form of methodological surrender, a way of loosening our grip on certainty and what we think we know about scholarly meaning making. Research is the Poetry shows writing researchers how to tap into the human dimensions of our work and begin to know, be, and do differently.
You can find the book at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/practice/poetry/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Sandra for her work on the book and for her decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.
All the best,
Mike
Mike Palmquist
Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse
Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Associate Provost
Colorado State University
Email: Mike.Palmquist