http://www.jessicacomola.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/c4af58c5-c3d3-4f88-95a8-9634b7c63dd5/Comola.Jessica.jpg http://www.jessicacomola.com/everything-we-met daily 0.75 2016-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1459098313370-Q7YE727O690G4XNDBZ39/image-asset.jpeg Everything We Met Changed Form and Followed the Rest Jessica Comola Poet Poetry Poem Book http://www.jessicacomola.com/what-kind-of-howly-divine daily 0.75 2016-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1459099022114-PFOA6G1BDJT5VYPGA7RL/image-asset.jpeg What Kind of Howly Divine Jessica Comola Poet Poetry Poem Book Chapbook http://www.jessicacomola.com/textilesapoeticsofdisorder daily 0.75 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1581810117468-3SQOZ4WAAQBLDEO18V9U/Blank+2000+x+2000+%281%29.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1552232610447-YEIKWPQLYDOPLBIHX0YG/JamieKraus19_JessicasDresses_021.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - Embroidery can function as a powerfully self-expressive site for tactile communication that isn’t bound to the conventions of an alphabet. Historically, embroidery was remedial labor for “mad” or “disorderly” women in institutional settings. But the value of such work expands well beyond the production and maintenance of patients’ garments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1547917490767-HERJ4K7G2TBUJ395LNJ8/ComolaDetail3 Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - This mixed media poetics project explores textiles as encoded forms of textual production. The stitched words and asemic forms examine how and why women have been historically pathologized as “mad” or “disorderly” and how such diagnoses can render women politically and culturally illegitimate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1552232427649-4RB43MD8J7Y4A30W2RLX/JamieKraus19_JessicasDresses_007.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - Through poetic and stitched forms, this project rethinks textile artifacts as insights into expressions of “disordered” thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1547917666274-U82NZ6FTZLD2EFW8XCSL/ComolaAnancasms Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/00b8d89d-b09f-45fb-9aa7-d58e072e49bd/OverOver2.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1581810117468-3SQOZ4WAAQBLDEO18V9U/Blank+2000+x+2000+%281%29.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1552232610447-YEIKWPQLYDOPLBIHX0YG/JamieKraus19_JessicasDresses_021.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - Embroidery can function as a powerfully self-expressive site for tactile communication that isn’t bound to the conventions of an alphabet. Historically, embroidery was remedial labor for “mad” or “disorderly” women in institutional settings. But the value of such work expands well beyond the production and maintenance of patients’ garments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1547917490767-HERJ4K7G2TBUJ395LNJ8/ComolaDetail3 Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - This mixed media poetics project explores textiles as encoded forms of textual production. The stitched words and asemic forms examine how and why women have been historically pathologized as “mad” or “disorderly” and how such diagnoses can render women politically and culturally illegitimate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1552232427649-4RB43MD8J7Y4A30W2RLX/JamieKraus19_JessicasDresses_007.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - Through poetic and stitched forms, this project rethinks textile artifacts as insights into expressions of “disordered” thinking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1547917666274-U82NZ6FTZLD2EFW8XCSL/ComolaAnancasms Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/00b8d89d-b09f-45fb-9aa7-d58e072e49bd/OverOver2.jpg Text/iles: A Poetics of Disorder - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.jessicacomola.com/st-joseph-embroidery-project daily 0.75 2020-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569952052898-TANQ8EKIC743CGIVIZ3T/ComolaAPoemAsMyHandStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569949761820-YFW86OPU83TFM5BHNX1O/ComolaGoldenRulesStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project - Do we have to “make sense” of the texts we read? What might it look like to do interpretive work outside of a sense-making paradigm? These questions lie at the heart of my project, which uses the St. Joseph Embroidery as an example of language that can draw our attention to how and why we “make sense” (when we read, write, make art, and communicate with one another). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951089164-5MDRKMK2NO95B8IXLMSE/ComolaMyNameIsStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project - “Poetic” not “psychotic.” Drawing on experimental disability poetics and feminist disability rhetoric, I explore how the St. Joseph Embroidery can: 1) Help us better recognize our own interpretive frameworks, especially those founded on ableist textual assumptions; 2) Acknowledge and challenge our complicity in the construction and maintenance of such frameworks; 3) And reconsider what textual innovation might mean outside of a sense-making paradigm. Re-reading the embroidery as “poetic,” rather than pathologizing it as “psychotic,” can be one way to fight stigmatizing rhetoric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951307121-IRDK8IG8U3VBQ4U2TGOG/ComolaHairOnFireStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project - Stitching into the St. Joseph Embroidery To get a more embodied sense of this textile, part of my projects involves hand-embroidering its language—in the embroider’s original “handwriting”—onto cloths made by women in my own family. I’ve also invited students, faculty, and community members to create “found poems” out of the textile’s language. Having transcribed its language onto dropcloth cutouts, I asked everyone to take a handful of fabric and craft the words into their own texts. Each of their poems now constitutes a small iteration and re-embodiment of the St. Jospeh Embroidery itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569952052898-TANQ8EKIC743CGIVIZ3T/ComolaAPoemAsMyHandStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569949761820-YFW86OPU83TFM5BHNX1O/ComolaGoldenRulesStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project - Do we have to “make sense” of the texts we read? What might it look like to do interpretive work outside of a sense-making paradigm? These questions lie at the heart of my project, which uses the St. Joseph Embroidery as an example of language that can draw our attention to how and why we “make sense” (when we read, write, make art, and communicate with one another). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951089164-5MDRKMK2NO95B8IXLMSE/ComolaMyNameIsStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project - “Poetic” not “psychotic.” Drawing on experimental disability poetics and feminist disability rhetoric, I explore how the St. Joseph Embroidery can: 1) Help us better recognize our own interpretive frameworks, especially those founded on ableist textual assumptions; 2) Acknowledge and challenge our complicity in the construction and maintenance of such frameworks; 3) And reconsider what textual innovation might mean outside of a sense-making paradigm. 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