ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the idea of poetry as research, method, and methodology by defining poetry and poetic inquiry and making the argument for the power of poetry. It examines the use of poetry as a form of research, representation, and method used by researchers, practitioners, and students from across the social sciences and humanities. The chapter shows that poetry as/in/for research offers scholars, teachers, and practitioners a means of doing, showing, and teaching embodiment and reflexivity, a way to refuse the mind-body dialectic, a form of ethnography and qualitative research, and a catalyst for social agitation and change. “Poetic Inquiry is the use of poetry crafted from research endeavors, either before a project analysis, as a project analysis, and/or poetry that is part of or that constitutes an entire research project”. Poetic Inquiry and poetry are feminist practice and theory.
