Michelle Reale, associate professor of the Library and Access Services, discussed poetic inquiry as a research method as a guest lecturer to Dr. Sandra Faulkner’s graduate qualitative methods class at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Through a Skype video call, students asked Reale about the ethics of her research in Sicily, about her process of collecting data and turning it into poetry, and how poetry can be used as a methodology.

Reale has been invited to visit campus in person this April to celebrate National Poetry Month and engage in its challenge to write 30 poems in 30 days.