Abstract

Guided by theoretical, philosophical, experiential, and ethical understanding, Poetic Inquiry is positioned as a way of becoming in an animate cosmos—a co-creative world pulsing in-to and out-of existence. This positioning does not reflect an ontological turn in the field. Rather, it claims a place that has always already been yet not differentiated within Poetic Inquiry publications, gatherings, and arts-oriented research communities. This collection calls unwaveringly for listeners and readers to question their embodied experience of reality so to recognize the interdependence between their bodies and the breathing earth—the easterly winds, aspen’s sibling roots, and morning’s quilled songs; these elements are not separable. With its companion publication, “Poetic Inquiry for Synchrony and Love: A New Order of Gravity,” a special issue in Art|Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, Fidyk and St. Georges called for poetic words, poetic images, and poetic inquiring that honour the dynamic dimensions of the full breath of life: birth, death, and regeneration. Seeking to support their growing international community through collective rhythm and mutual breath, they sought what is precious, bejeweled, and sacred, while offering a curative for catastrophic times. Here, poets, authors, educators, scholars, artists, and activists boldly gather. They imagine, feel, intuit, and haptically perceive to re-centre researching, teaching, learning, living. Together, their vibrant work renders Poetic Inquiry a research approach, a perspective, not only as previously used: a method, a research tool, and an under theorized methodology. As a way of relating, mourning, and loving, Poetic Inquiry offers renewal, even revitalization, by remembering the potency of poetic consciousness and existential mysteries. Guided by theoretical, philosophical, experiential, and ethical understanding, Poetic Inquiry is positioned as a way of becoming in an animate cosmos—a co-creative world pulsing in-to and out-of existence. This positioning does not reflect an ontological turn in the field. Rather, it claims a place that has always already been yet not differentiated within Poetic Inquiry publications, gatherings, and arts-oriented research communities. This collection calls unwaveringly for listeners and readers to question their embodied experience of reality so to recognize the interdependence between their bodies and the breathing earth—the easterly winds, aspen’s sibling roots, and morning’s quilled songs; these elements are not separable. With its companion publication, “Poetic Inquiry for Synchrony and Love: A New Order of Gravity,” a special issue in Art|Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, Fidyk and St. Georges called for poetic words, poetic images, and poetic inquiring that honour the dynamic dimensions of the full breath of life: birth, death, and regeneration. Seeking to support their growing international community through collective rhythm and mutual breath, they sought what is precious, bejeweled, and sacred, while offering a curative for catastrophic times. Here, poets, authors, educators, scholars, artists, and activists boldly gather. They imagine, feel, intuit, and haptically perceive to re-centre researching, teaching, learning, living. Together, their vibrant work renders Poetic Inquiry a research approach, a perspective, not only as previously used: a method, a research tool, and an under theorized methodology. As a way of relating, mourning, and loving, Poetic Inquiry offers renewal, even revitalization, by remembering the potency of poetic consciousness and existential mysteries.