ABSTRACT
Poetry can be both political and pedagogical. It is utilized in research in a variety of ways to enhance, critique, analyze, and express different voices in qualitative research projects. Poetry can be employed in multiple ways throughout a project, or as the sole method of inquiry. It can serve a range of purposes in a study, and consequentially become embedded in nearly all phases of the research process. Poetry is unapologetically emotive and evocative. It speaks to what is at the heart of education: connections between people, places, and things. Poetry surprises and engages, and it can enable learning and spark curiosity. Using poetry to communicate educational research necessarily extends the registers of research communication; it enables academics to reach different audiences, to say different kinds of things, and to express ideas and emotional landscapes in ways that academic prose cannot.
