Poetic Inquiry for Synchrony and Love: A New Order of Gravity

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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.


Alexandra Fidyk, award-winning educator and transdisciplinary scholar, is Professor and Program Lead for the Trauma-Sensitive Practice Graduate Program in Educational Studies, University of Alberta, Canada. Philosopher, poet, and Jungian Somatic Psychotherapist, she engages with youth and teachers through body-centred, relational, and arting processes. She was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Jungian Studies for over a decade and served as the President of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies. Publications include: Sisters of the Protectress (2024), Reclaiming the Fire: Archetypal Reflectivity in Three Voices (2019), Poetic Inquiry: Enchantment of Place (2017), and Democratizing Educational Experience (2008).
Darlene St. Georges, a creation-centred scholar, is Associate Professor of Art Education, University of Lethbridge. Her recognized research includes co-edited collections: Arts Creation: A Curriculum of Relationality, Resurgence, and Renewal (2024), and Poetic Inquiry for Synchrony and Love: A New Order of Gravity (2022), articles in International Journal of Art and Design Education (2019), and Sage Qualitative Inquiry (2024). Darlene earned a publication award from Arts Researchers and Teachers Society (2023) and LAIR Excellence in Arts Research award with concurrent exhibits at its SPACE Gallery (2021/2024). Darlene is co-editor of Artizien: Arts and Teaching Journal.