Found Poetry: Reimagining What is Present and What is Absent Through the Journals of Her Life. (February 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brown, Hilary
• Other Names: Norris Joe guest-editor.; Bhattacharya Kakali guest-editor.; Powell Kimberly guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 20:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 15
• Publication Date: 2020-02
• Subjects: arts-based inquiry -- methods of inquiry -- investigative poetry -- performance ethnography -- ethnographies -- methodologies; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708619884958
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

This article maps an emergent qualitative research process of writing found poetry to give voice to a long-term care patient who was slowly losing her physical capabilities to supra nuclear palsy. Through an initial chance encounter, the poem Thank you was written from the patient's scribed journals and then performed in variety of settings for a variety of audiences. First, an academic conference proceeding, followed by a video recording performance, and finally, it was performed for health care providers at the patient's annual case conference. The performances gave this elderly disabled woman, my mother, her voice.