Poetry in Qualitative Research

Baff, S. J. (1997). “Realism and naturalism and dead dudes” Talking about literature in 11th-Grade English. Qualitative Inquiry, 3(4), 468-490.

Borum, V. (2006). Reading and Writing Womanist Poetic Prose: African American Mothers With Deaf Daughters. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(2), 340-352.

Bowden, T. (2010). Black birds: works of a woman unfolding. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(4), 235-239.

Brady, I. (2003). The time at Darwin’s Reef. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Brady, I. (2008). Poetics for a planet: discourse on some problems of being-in-place. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials (3rd ed., pp. 501-564). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Cahnmann, M. (2003). The craft, practice, and possibility of poetry in educational research. Educational Researcher, 32(3), 29-36.

Cahnmann-Taylor, M. (2009). The craft, practice, and possibility of poetry in educational research. In M. Prendergast, C. Leggo, & P. Sameshima, (Eds. ). Poetic Inquiry: Vibrant Voices in the Social Sciences (13-30). Sense Publications.

Carless, D., & Douglas, K. (2009). Opening Doors: Poetic Representation of the Sport Experiences of Men With Severe Mental Health Difficulties. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(10), 1547-1551.

Carroll, P., Dew, K., & Howden-Chapman, P. (2011). The Heart of the Matter: Using Poetry as a Method of Ethnographic Inquiry to Represent and Present Experiences of the Informally Housed in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Qualitative Inquiry, 17(7), 623-630. doi: 10.1177/1077800411414003

Clarke, J., Febbraro, A., Hatzipantelis, M., & Nelson, G. (2005). Poetry and Prose: Telling the Stories of Formerly Homeless Mentally Ill People. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(6), 913-932. doi: 10.1177/1077800405278772

Commeyras, M., & Montsi, M. (2000). What if I woke up as the other sex? Batswana youth perspectives on gender. Gender and Education 12, 327-346.

Commeyras, M., & Kelly, K. (2002). A “found” poem from a reading odyssey. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 46(2), 100-102.

Durham, A. (2003). For Teri. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(1), 18-19.

Faulkner, S. L. (2007). Concern With Craft: Using Ars Poetica as Criteria for Reading Research Poetry. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(2), 218-234.

Fecho, B., Commeyras, M., Bauer, E. B., Font, G. (2000). In rehearsal: Complicating authority in undergraduate critical inquiry classrooms. Journal of Literacy Research, 32(4), 471-504.

Freeman, M. (2006). Nurturing Dialogic Hermeneutics and the Deliberative Capacities of Communities in Focus Groups. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(1), 81-95.

Furman, R. (2004). Using Poetry and Narrative as Qualitative Data: Exploring a Father’s Cancer Through Poetry. [Article]. Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family HealthCare, 22(2), 162-170.

Furman, R. (2006). Poetic Forms and Structures in Qualitative Health Research. Qualitative Health Research, 16(4), 560-566.

Furman, R., Langer, C. L., Davis, C. S., Gallardo, H. P., & Kulkarni, S. (2007). Expressive, research and reflective poetry as qualitative inquiry: a study of adolescent identity. [Article]. Qualitative Research, 7(3), 301-315. doi: 10.1177/1468794107078511

Furman, R., Lietz, C., & Langer, C. L. (2006). The Research Poem in International Social Work: Innovations in Qualitative Methodology. [Article]. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 5(3), 1-8.

Gallardo, H. L., Furman, R., & Kulkarni, S. (2009). Explorations of Depression : Poetry and Narrative in Autoethnographic Qualitative Research. [Article]. Qualitative Social Work, 8(3), 287-304. doi: 10.1177/1473325009337837

Gannon, S. (2001). (Re)presenting the Collective Girl: A Poetic Approach to a Methodological Dilemma. Qualitative Inquiry, 7(6), 787-800.

Glesne, C. (1997). That Rare Feeling: Re-presenting Research Through Poetic Transcription. Qualitative Inquiry, 3(2), 202-221.

Glesne, C. (1999) Improvising a song of the world: Language and representation. In Becoming qualitative researchers: An introduction. (2nd ed). pp. 175-192. New York: Longman.

Hill, D. A. (2005). The Poetry in Portraiture: Seeing Subjects, Hearing Voices, and Feeling Contexts. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(1), 95-105. doi: 10.1177/1077800404270835

Hilton, P. (2008). Autobiography and poetry. In T. Leonard & P. Willis (Eds.), Pedagogies of the imagination (pp. 107-124): Springer Netherlands.

Kendall, M., & Murray, S. A. (2005). Tales of the Unexpected: Patients’ Poetic Accounts of the Journey to a Diagnosis of Lung Cancer: A Prospective Serial Qualitative Interview Study. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 11(5), 733-751. doi: 10.1177/1077800405276819

Kennedy, B. L. (2009). Infusing participants’ voices into grounded theory tesearch: A poetic anthology. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(8), 1416-1433. doi: 10.1177/1077800409339569

Kumashiro, K. K. (1999). Supplementing normalcy and otherness: Queer Asian American men reflect on stereotypes, identity, and oppression. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 12(5), 491-508.

Lahman, M. K. E., Geist, M. R., Rodriguez, K. L., Graglia, P. E., Richard, V. M., & Schendel, R. K. (2010). Poking Around Poetically: Research, Poetry, and Trustworthiness. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(1), 39-48. doi: 10.1177/1077800409350061

Leavy, P. (2010). A/r/t: A Poetic Montage. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(4), 240-243. doi: 10.1177/1077800409354067

Leggo, C., Sinner, A. E., Irwin, R. L., Pantaleo, K., Gouzouasis, P., & Grauer, K. (2011). Lingering in liminal spaces: a/r/tography as living inquiry in a language arts class. International Journal of Qualitative Studies            in Education, 24(2), 239-256.

Norton, A. (2002). Mathematicians’ religious affiliations and professional practices: The case of Charles. The Mathematics Educator, 12(2), 28-33.

Maréchal, G., & Linstead, S. (2010). Metropoems: Poetic Method and Ethnographic Experience. [Article]. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(1), 66-77. doi: 10.1177/1077800409349757

Morse, J. M., Coulehan, J., Thorne, S., Bottorff, J. L., Cheek, J., & Kuzel, A. J. (2009). Data Expressions or Expressing Data, Editorial, Qualitative Health Research, pp. 1035-1036. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=43565282&site=ehost-live

Ohlen, J. (2003). Evocation of meaning through poetic condensation of narratives in empirical phenomenological inquiry into human suffering. Qualitative Health Research, 13(4), 557-566.

Piirto, J. (2002). The question of quality and qualifications: Writing inferior poems as qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(4), 431-446.

Poindexter, C. C. (2002). Research as poetry: A couple experiences HIV. Qualitative Inquiry, 8(6), 707-714.

Prendergast, M. (2006). Found poetry as literature review: Research poems on audience and performance. Qualitative Inquiry, 12(2), 369-388.

Prendergast, M. (2009). Poetic inquiry is … 29 ways of looking at poetry as qualitative research. Educational Insights, 13(3), 1-3.

Prendergast, M., Leggo, C. D., & Sameshima, P. (Eds.). (2009). Poetic inquiry: Vibrant voices in the social sciences. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Richardson, L. (2002). Poetic representation of interviews. In J. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), Handbook of interview research: Context and method (pp. 877-892). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Rolling, J. H., Jr. (2004). Messing Around with Identity Constructs: Pursuing a Poststructural and Poetic Aesthetic. Qualitative Inquiry, 10(4), 548-557.

Saresma, T. (2003). “Art as a way to life”: Bereavement and the healing power of arts and writing. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(4), 603-620.

Smith, P. (1999). Food truck’s party hat. Qualitative Inquiry, 5(2), 244-261.

Shapiro, J. (2004). Can Poetry Be Data? Potential Relationships Between Poetry and Research. [Article]. Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family HealthCare, 22(2), 171-177.

Szto, P., Furman, R., & Langer, C. (2005). Poetry and Photography: An Exploration into Expressive/Creative Qualitative Research. [Article]. Qualitative Social Work, 4(2), 135-156. doi: 10.1177/1473325005052390

Whitney, S. L. (2004). Don’t You Wish You Had Blond Hair. Qualitative Inquiry, 10(5), 788-793.