Black Poetic Inquiry

<p>The poems in this project were written within a 24‑hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance for the month of January 2024.</p><p>Written as a call and response to each other the poems are at times direct responses in content and form or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other. Using poetry writing as a methodological engagement with the reflective and reflexive attributes of autoethnography this project offers an examination of lived experience and will provide a critical expansion of poetic inquiry. An example of collaborative spirit‑writing this text uses a dialogical exchange of responsiveness excavating the lived experiences of the two authors (a Black man and a Black woman) with complex intersectional identities. Using poetic writing as both form and function this book provides a performance of remembrance and resistance.</p><p>Students and researchers working with qualitative inquiry and in areas from performative writing to Critical Race Studies will find this book a useful addition to their research. Teachers will also find this book facilitates pedagogies of engagement.</p>