Abstract
Between 2006 and 2015, Laura Apol made ten trips to Rwanda. This chapter details with the various purposes of the visits, paying particular attention to the relationships that developed across time. As the purposes for the visits change, Apol documents through poems her own responses and insights, seeing this writing about lived experience as “poetic inquiry.” Poetic inquiry offered Apol a means of bringing together her identities as a researcher and a poet, and of exploring through poetry her own learning and transformation. Through engaging in poetic inquiry, Apol became aware of, and began to build a framework for understanding both the affordances and the challenges of this means of research as she encountered “the lives of others” through poems.
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