Black Poetic Inquiry

The poems in this project were written within a 24‑hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance for the month of January 2024. Written as a call and response to each other, the poems are at times direct responses in content and form, or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other. Using poetry writing as a methodological engagement with the reflective and reflexive attributes of autoethnography, this project offers an examination of lived experience and wi