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This chapter examines the Clothesline Project at Washington State University (WSU) to better understand the experience of empowerment and resilience through empathetic poetry, found poetry, and hermeneutic qualitative inquiry. The WSU Clothesline Project is a collection of T-shirts emblazoned with personal messages that has grown to approximately 450 shirts over 15 years, from 1995 to 2011 (Robinson-Smith, personal communication, fall, 2008).
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Maarhuis, P., Sameshima, P. (2016). Materializing the Punctum. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_21
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