Poetry On the Run

Brankamp, Hanno; Ngutulu, Kodi Arnu

Abstract

Poetry On the Run is an ongoing collaborative project that seeks to traverse the confines of research on displacement through poetic encounters, renderings, imaginations, and experimentation. This contribution is based on a creative writing workshop with young poets in Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. The workshop explored how the concept of “fugitivity” may resonate with more contemporary experiences of forced migration, while also furthering the use of poetry as a literary research method and source of theoretical knowledge in the study of refugeehood today. This lyrical (re)searching is framed as part of what we refer to as the “geopoetics of migration.”

Citation

Brankamp, H., & Ngutulu, K. A. (2024). Poetry On the Run. Migration and Society, 7(1), 217-226. https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2024.070120

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jun 1, 2024
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2024
• Deposit Date: Dec 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 16, 2024
• Journal: Migration and Society
• Print ISSN: 2574-1306
• Electronic ISSN: 2574-1314
• Publisher: Berghahn Journals
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 217-226
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2024.070120
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3222217