Editorial

Call and Response Issue

Abstract

This issue represents a bit of an experiment. Our last Symposium for SoTL, in November 2022, seemed particularly thought-provoking and we were proud of the lively community and conversations so evident throughout the conference. We decided that we weren’t quite ready to let these conversations go, and invited each keynote speaker to provide an invited piece for this issue. We then created a call for proposals inviting conference attendees to respond to the keynotes, and in this issue are two pieces that do just that. In each case, the authors take the ideas they understood from one of the keynotes and develop and relate them to their own ideas and contexts. A signature element of our Symposium has become pop-up poetry. As part of this Call and Response issue, we also offer two essays written by the poets, Richard Harrison and Beth Everest, as well as two responses to the experience. We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together. It seems a perfect segue into our next Symposium, happening in just a few week’s time, where we will continue the conversation.