ABSTRACT
Poetry and ethnography are twin forms of attention. Fieldpoems are fieldnotes written as poems, or poems written out of fieldwork material. Tapping into the senses, sound poems are an easy-to-learn fieldpoem technique. These sound-based fieldpoems are written as sounds or in response to sounds and the experience of listening. Fieldpoetry encourages researchers to work through their material with a poet’s sensibility for experience and writing, including a greater awareness of the senses, syntax and line, word choice, mouthfeel, and sonics. Sensing and re-sensing the world, fieldpoetry is both a research method and a genre of writing.
