{"id":1497,"date":"2026-03-04T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antenna.local\/?page_id=1497"},"modified":"2026-05-24T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:09:27","slug":"sobre-a-antenna","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/sobre-a-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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In her \u201cArt of Poetry II,\u201d Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen states that, \u201cPoetry does not require me to have a specialization, for its art is the art of being. (\u2026) It demands (\u2026) that I always live, attentive like an antenna.\u201d<\/p>

Antenna: Journal of Arts, Humanities and Health<\/em>\u00a0welcomes words and images attentive to life, in its fullness and its fragility. For it is mainly in moments of heightened awareness of our vulnerability, and of the vulnerability of the world we inhabit, that life invites us to slow down, listen, look, feel, and try to find shareable words, images, and gestures. This happens both in the exhilaration of fellowship and in the experience of loss, illness, and grief. We know how difficult it is to articulate pain, grief or love. We know that there are experiences that challenge representation, be it verbal or non-verbal. Yet it is precisely because of how disruptive such experiences are that we are compelled to find ways to intimate the inchoate, to articulate the inarticulate, so as to make this knowable and shareable. For, as Clarice Lispector noted (2010), often it is by writing that we become aware of things that we didn\u2019t even know we knew.\u00a0<\/p>

Within the context of the Project in Medical Humanities<\/b><\/a>based at School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon<\/b><\/a>we have applied the methodology proposed by Narrative Medicine (Charon 2008 & Charon\u00a0et al.<\/em>\u00a02016) in teaching, as well as in reading and writing groups for patients, students, and healthcare providers. In this praxis, we explore the potential of close reading and reflective writing to learn more about ourselves and others.\u00a0Antenna<\/em>\u00a0welcomes these and other reflective expressions, for, as Arthur W. Frank (2022) reminds us, \u201cto know my own story, I need to encounter stories that are not mine.\u201d Likewise, it is through our own experience that we engage with the stories of others. If academic writing frames ongoing analytical thinking and scientific knowledge, creative expression enables us to explore other forms of integrating experiential and reflective knowledge. By re-connecting biology, biography, and culture, by inscribing the subjective in the communal, literary and artistic expression invites us to consider the multifaceted experience of health and illness, in the fullness and vulnerability of being alive.\u00a0Antenna<\/em>\u00a0aims to air such expressions so that they may be audible and find resonance both among those receiving and providing healthcare, as well as in academic reflection, political decision-making, and civic engagement.<\/p>

Antenna: Journal of Arts, Humanities and Health<\/em>\u00a0accepts texts, images, and videos in the following categories: poetry; fiction; literary non-fiction; graphic narrative; visual arts; video; reviews. The working languages are English and Portuguese.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miss\u00e3o Escreve Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, na sua \u00abArte Po\u00e9tica II\u00bb: \u00abA poesia n\u00e3o me pede propriamente uma especializa\u00e7\u00e3o pois a sua arte \u00e9 a arte do ser. (\u2026) Pede-me que viva atenta como uma antena.\u00bb Antenna: Revista de Artes, Humanidades e Sa\u00fade\u00a0visa acolher palavras e imagens atentas \u00e0 vida, na sua plenitude e […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1497","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"antenna","author_link":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/author\/antenna\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Miss\u00e3o Escreve Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, na sua \u00abArte Po\u00e9tica II\u00bb: \u00abA poesia n\u00e3o me pede propriamente uma especializa\u00e7\u00e3o pois a sua arte \u00e9 a arte do ser. (\u2026) Pede-me que viva atenta como uma antena.\u00bb Antenna: Revista de Artes, Humanidades e Sa\u00fade\u00a0visa acolher palavras e imagens atentas \u00e0 vida, na sua plenitude e…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1497\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antenna.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}