In 2020 I conducted interviews with high school English teachers from across the Upper Cumberland with the intention of creating a portrait, so to speak, of what it was like to teach during the pandemic. I interviewed a small sample of teachers about their experiences during the Spring 2020 closure and the return that Fall. I wanted to capture the unique experience of that time and situation. During analysis I used several approaches including inductive analysis, narrative analysis, and...

This article reflects on the use of poetic inquiry to explore one transcript from a study I did in the fall of 2020 of rural high school English teacher experiences during the Coronavirus pandemic. The exercise was done as a part of my graduate coursework alongside a discourse analysis I was working on using the same data; therefore, I chose to conduct the poetic transcription as an opportunity for reflexivity within the context of my study. Rationale I originally chose to interview rural...