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Roots and Echoes
Inspired by Ewa Marcinek’s investigative approach, this lesson explores the hidden lives of words, tracing their origins and journeys while inviting you to uncover the meanings that live within us and shape our realities.
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Poetic Anatomy
Helen Hafgnýr Cova invites you to explore how different languages can interact creatively, reflecting on linguistic identity while building confidence and discovering the expressive possibilities of multilingualism.
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Weight of the Heritage
Natasha S. invites you to reflect on how literary heritage shapes a writer’s path and voice, exploring personal experience in relation to the broader context of Russian exophonic writing.
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Between Languages
Translation is not reproduction — it is an act of reading so close it can fuel an author’s own writing. In this session, led by Francesca Cricelli, we treat the translated word as raw material: a spark, a provocation, a door left ajar. Students don't need to know the source language to work with it. They can also pick their own pair of languages and adapt the methodology to their creative needs.
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Bringing It All Together
A chance to look back at the journey, gather what we've learned, and carry it forward
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Multilingual Poetics
Where there are emotions, there are stories. 

Bring together your experiences, languages, and word explorations to write or discover a story that emerges from your emotions and associations.

 

 

 

Your task (about 40 minutes)
  1. Collect words for inspiration (5 minutes). List words from any languages you know that carry a deep emotional meaning for you. 
  2. Free writing (10 min). Don’t worry about form, grammar, or creating a finished piece. Write and let each word open doors to images, sensations, memories, or fleeting thoughts. 
  3. Create (25 min). Choose one thread, image, or idea and shape it into a more concise form: a poem, short story, or a brief reflective piece. Focus on clarity and resonance, not perfection. 
 
Reflection
  • Which words or languages sparked the most surprising images, ideas, or stories in your mind?