From Interview Transcript to Poem: Sharing the Process of Poem Creation for a Study about Lactating Teachers in Schools

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 2:15 pm - Gold 4
  In Roundtable Session: Arts based educational research and empowerment in/through the arts

Abstract

This paper is my answer to the questions: How do you get from a qualitative interview transcript to a poem? What role does editing play and how does it change the transcript? In what follows I walk through how I created transcription poems from interview transcripts in my feminist qualitatitive study about teachers expressing milk in schools. I give an in-depth example from one participant, and I include the work I did and the choices I made from the transcript excerpt to the polished poem. This paper session is useful to those who are using poetic inquiry in arts-based research and those interested in focusing on process across artistic genres.

Author

• Elise Toedt, University of Minnesota