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Writing Poetry in English as a Second Language – Fang-Yu Liao

Writing Poetry in English as a Second Language Poetic Auto Ethnographer : Fang-Yu Liao Participant : Second Langauge Writer of Poetry Project : Meaningful literacy in a second language Source : Liao, F. (2020). When my professor tells me to write poetry in my second language: A poetic autoethnography. In B. Yazan, S. Canagarajah, & R. Jain (Eds.), Autoethnographies in ELT: Transnational Identities, Pedagogies, and Practices (pp. 57-74). Routledge: New York, NY. I My heart started to pounder and wonder... POETRY? Really? You must be kidding me? How can I write poetry? Poetry like Shakespeare’s Sonnet? or classic poems from Chinese poets? Not even a poet in my first languages. Never written any poems in Mandarin. What should I do? Can I survive from this class? Smile on my face, to convince myself, I can do it...... BUT CAN I? IV Closing eyes we all sat, I felt relaxed and comfortable. This time, I

Experiencing the Hijab - Amal Alharthi

Early Experiences with the Hijab Poetic Ethnographer: Amal Alharthi Participants: Six Saudi women Project: Saudi women’s voices and gendered experiences Source: Alharthi, A. (2021). Defining Saudi feminism/s: Poetic ethnographic representations of Saudi women’s voices and lived experiences . [Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation]. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Wearing the abaya When I was in fourth grade My parents said wear the abaya After a year they said wear the scarf to cover your hair After a year they started to force me to cover my face I was only in the sixth grade! They said you are older now You will be in middle school you have to cover your face It’s over! I resisted the abaya! Every time we go out I wear the abaya in the house When I get in the car I take it off and put it beside me Then I get out of the car without the abaya! My dad would ask me Where is your abaya? I tell him I left it in the car! He says next ti

A US Soldier's Experience - David I. Hanauer

Being in the Second Iraq War Poetic Ethnographer: David I. Hanauer Participant: Former US soldier who fought in the 2nd Iraq War Project: War experiences Source: Hanauer, D. I. (2014). Being in the Second Iraq War: A poetic ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry , 21 (1): 83-106 XII. The Huge Hole Driving in the desert there was nothing. Then there is this huge hole. This huge hole is lush green. And a house. There’s someone who lives in the desert who has a house in the ground with green. And we couldn’t get in there. Like I don’t know how the hell he gets in there, and gets out. And we were just at the top with our guns “Get out!” cause you know everyone’s crazy. We just see these guys doing nothing. They could be soldiers who ran already or they could, do somethin! We can’t have people walking around right there. So we’re like putting out guns at them, telling them to come out, because we can’t get there. And then they

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