This volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research
and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a
response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social
justice work. The authors engage with poetry's potential for
connectivity, political power, and evocation through methodological,
theoretical, performative, and empirical work. The poet-researchers
consider questions of how poetry and Poetic Inquiry can be a response to
political and social events, be used as a pedagogical tool to critique
inequitable social structures, and how Poetic Inquiry speaks to our
local identities and politics. The authors answer the question: "What
spaces can poetry create for dialogue about critical awareness, social
justice, and re-visioning of social, cultural, and political worlds?"
This volume adds to the growing body of Poetic Inquiry through the
demonstration of poetry as political action, response, and reflective
practice. We hope this collection inspires you to write and engage with
political poetry to realize the power of poetry as political action,
response, and reflective practice.