On the Verge of Expression: Culturally Responsive Poetic Inquiry: Douglas Hoston Jr. at TEDxWSU 2014

Culturally Responsive Poetic Inquiry is the use of poetry to examine culture. This interpretive qualitative research method fuses aspects of Critical Race Theory, Arts Based/Informed Research and Post Colonialism. Consequently, this approach is particular useful in urban educational settings, due the popularity of spoken word and slam-poetry among the youth in open communicative spaces. In this instance, words and presentation are the text that inform the poetic response.

Bio- Douglas "Sage" Hoston Jr. is doctoral student in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education Program at Washington State University. He is a graduate assistant in the Office of Multicultural Student Services and a teaching assistant in social studies for pre-service teachers in the College of Education. He has served as a disability coordinator for the Head Start/ Early Head Start Program in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as a panelist for the Ohio Governor's Conference on Increasing the High School Graduation Rate for African American Male Students. In 1994, he founded the performance poetry troupe called Black Poetic Society. Black Poetic Society collaborated with the Cleveland Museum of Art's Outreach Program and Cleveland State University's Minority Student Services in providing performance installations regarding social justice and cultural pedagogy. His doctoral research interests are focused on the intersection of Critical Race Theory and Post Colonialism in addressing its praxis to urban youth education.

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