http://www.jessicacomola.com/everything-we-met daily 0.75 2016-03-27 http://www.jessicacomola.com/home daily 1.0 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/c4af58c5-c3d3-4f88-95a8-9634b7c63dd5/Comola.Jessica.jpg Home Jessica Comola Poetry Poems Poet Everything We Met Changed Form and Followed the Rest - Jessica Comola (she/her) is an editor, educator, and creative writer. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.jessicacomola.com/what-kind-of-howly-divine daily 0.75 2016-03-27 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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/00b8d89d-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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1552232427649-4RB43MD8J7Y4A30W2RLX/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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1552232610447-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. http://www.jessicacomola.com/st-joseph-embroidery-project daily 0.75 2020-06-20 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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685622107-C7JCTGNHHX84L45VG8DR/1.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685970823-LHB1M6TOG2FNAE1BYSY4/3+copy.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685622191-Z7F836U7YVTTOCFRNYHK/2.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685630222-UB7MPN7AEUE07BCK38NX/3.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685632161-US97L8X72WH596ZTBUEL/4.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685638851-8JP80DUEGAPAA4ZPUXG5/5.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685941140-YEA12NTO0OC24HPUN39E/2+copy.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685642342-IPS5YWADA05YBFESGMOU/6.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685646989-G3KMORL446OBFV3JKM3P/7.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685651165-N74CENX76NWGNAMCNVF7/8.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685654658-8OM89Y96UCAHM1KBA601/9.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685660267-RI8NZMER7GSJR95BQCHV/10.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685663138-WIR8P82Z2VQ18KTHAO72/11.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685672958-ANGL4OMSJ9KWGXI1A2UJ/13.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685668653-920V3Y50C7GDLCC0CJP3/12.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592685675401-9AR1JCBGIH75HHTD2V1C/14.png St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569952052898-TANQ8EKIC743CGIVIZ3T/ComolaAPoemAsMyHandStJosephEmbroidery St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951918870-TQP9BSWU2QM3UVQT3NKH/SJEPIece.jpg St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951894084-0RCN3QRXPGM77EDPAS4Y/PoemsfromMMM3.jpg St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951901614-KWD3RPWUW9U5N80TLBDT/PoemsfromMMM2.jpg St. Joseph Embroidery Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951911745-VKG6YKDGR0XJLOQ8L6JF/PoemsfromMMM1.jpg St. Joseph Embroidery Project 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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1569951089164-5MDRKMK2NO95B8IXLMSE/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. http://www.jessicacomola.com/annotation-wearable-poetics daily 0.75 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590102586489-8TYAAZQKZB67LZHCZRST/IMG_1725.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590102380425-IQI0HM8BK0PEWGCNK3S9/pink1.JPG An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590102591067-FI4BTSBZ9IA3PUUA2DXR/IMG_1441.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590102379941-CSP6O5FLHHI5UZZZQNLV/pink2.JPG An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590102596500-W55Z1HBPPCEXR7MV00UN/IMG_1737.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590102382175-CPMVTEXL5IKGFJAWV8BZ/pink3.JPG An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1592686064858-7MG1QH8V02LA8DCUFCE6/IMG_8201.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/b2bfd651-b5be-4159-9fc0-a072d2a5e55e/an_notation.jpeg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics - 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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590101902212-EILN8DXPMC3N61474PSK/blue3.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590101896604-TGDKAVD9ZFIVBZOT2E7V/blue2.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1590101899395-OWWXXH9ZIESG4TSOPO5Q/blue1.jpg An/Notation: Wearable Poetics http://www.jessicacomola.com/for-young-writers daily 0.75 2024-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/224c8257-32ba-451b-bfed-8f678c871f16/IMG_5652.jpg For Young Writers - 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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1528322586425-1W11FMLQMRR7ZPJC4MDE/DWP2 For Young Writers Since 2010, I’ve helped young writers realize their creative potential. I offer one-on-one virtual editing services to young poets, storytellers, and academics, ages 8-18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/6ec70438-0fcb-419f-9e32-51d35b686a94/IMG_6606.JPG For Young Writers - 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/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/8d6bf0b3-2fb1-4a3d-a3f7-0bafcacd47d4/IMG_5771.jpg For Young Writers I also lead community workshops, writing camps, and outreach programs through partnerships with organizations like: - Writers in the Schools - Colorado Humanities - Lighthouse Writers Workshop - Denver School of the Arts - Denver Writing Project - Austin Public Library Foundation - and more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/4dc988f0-efec-4920-a416-70abab8fc03f/IMG_0476.jpg For Young Writers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.jessicacomola.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-03-04 http://www.jessicacomola.com/editing-portfolio daily 0.75 2024-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/d506a97b-cf17-4aa2-bde8-a64af997f7e8/bettinalove.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Sample 1: Interview Interviewer, editor, and producer for a keynote speaker at an annual conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/bb7de589-101b-4c0b-8efb-250331f3125e/artmental.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Sample 3: Article “The Art of Mental Health” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/c2c92cbb-4776-42d7-8bc9-89ddc483cb63/IMG_8833.JPG Editing Portfolio - Sample 3: Multimedia Writer and editor of multimedia descriptions. Producer for video and podcast content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/4681133b-ee21-4f16-97b1-0232e07afecf/chokshi.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Sample 2: Blog “Planning Professional Development on ChatGPT” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/f49b223d-c60b-40ef-8aa8-73a417a02d5c/grecc1.png Editing Portfolio - Resources | Editor Editing, updating, and streamlining resources and course materials with the Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/225210fa-b36d-4d41-9d32-1b2716b21af4/nepa2.png Editing Portfolio - Quality Assurance I ensure that written and narrated content, like that in e-learning courses for the U.S. DOT and VA, meets the highest standards of accuracy, consistency, and adherence to federal guidelines and specifications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/1ce33f93-0cd8-4470-9419-1191dcd42b05/perfectionism.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Sample 4: Article “The Pressures of Perfectionism” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/d369022c-2880-4c3f-833b-6710113a9b54/todaypodcast.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Sample 1: Blog “Today, You’re a Podcast Host” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/652c1c5f-6aab-4f95-879c-a6286cd9931f/FLqa-b_XEAAHVe1.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Course Content | Editor Collaborating with subject matter experts, instructional designers, and course developers to create and polish online courses for federal employees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/6ddc6e54-de53-468c-9806-4caba4b5da7d/Untitled+design+%282%29.jpg Editing Portfolio - Copy Editing & Writing I meticulously review written material for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style consistency to produce error-free, polished copy. Juggling multiple style guides (or working from scratch to create one) doesn’t faze me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/c3192afc-a28b-49e4-bcfb-dd9e4eed2dc1/Screenshot+2024-03-04+at+1.51.18+PM.png Editing Portfolio - Sample 4: Social Media Writer, editor, and designer for social media posts across multiple platforms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/b58d1d8c-1acb-4f8f-ba4e-0d576fefaeb9/Untitled+design+%281%29.jpg Editing Portfolio - Content Editing & Writing I shape the substance and structure of content so it aligns with objectives and speaks to its audience. I appreciate how the give-and-take process of constructive feedback deepens clarity and coherence in writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/2c418dd9-3b22-47c4-89a1-4a3a94bfa784/advisory.jpeg Editing Portfolio - Sample 2: Resource Writer, editor, and producer of various tools for educators to implement in K-12 schools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56f7453bb2d7c7b358d13c00/9bca7542-8cec-45d5-81ac-143a0e3d5e92/nepa1.png Editing Portfolio - Audio & CC | Editor Performing quality assurance checks on audio content, comparing narration to script, and editing for precision and accessibility in closed captioning for e-learning courses.